{"id":2347,"date":"2008-08-04T21:50:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2008-08-04T21:50:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:50:47","slug":"blurring-the-lines-between-reality-and-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, I couldn&#8217;t help but play a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lumines\">lumines<\/a>.  As a result, I couldn&#8217;t help but whenever I was sitting idly, blocks would appear in my hand and I would start thinking about how I would rotate those 4 squares so that I could make more squares.  Those checkered blocks so hard to get rid of.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good game, but finally last weekend, I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore.  I was walking around, enjoying a day outside when those blocks would enter my head and I had this horrible urge to just beat the next level.  Just.  Beat.  The.  Next. Level.  And it will be ok.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I beat all the CPU levels and the feeling almost evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>Then I played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/IV\/\">GTA IV<\/a>.  A few moments after, we went to drive to a farmer&#8217;s market.  I said almost thoughtlessly, &#8220;What if we could go through red lights and steal cars?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then that&#8217;s where the line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26009459\/\">begins to blur<\/a>.  I am curious if a car can be stolen that easily like in the game, but then what?  I would be ridden with guilt and shame.  Because unlike the video game, it&#8217;s real.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burnout_(game)\">Burnout<\/a> made me feel sick and I didn&#8217;t spend that much time thinking about how my car could smash other cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, I couldn&#8217;t help but play a lot of lumines. As a result, I couldn&#8217;t help but whenever I was sitting idly, blocks would appear in my hand and I would start thinking about how I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}