{"id":338,"date":"2012-01-30T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:30:33","slug":"iain-simons-and-james-newman-gamecity-national-videogame-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Iain Simons and James Newman: GameCity, National Videogame Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-339\" title=\"There's Horace!\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iain-simons.jpeg\" alt=\"There's Horace!\" width=\"530\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iain-simons.jpeg 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iain-simons-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iain Simons is the\u00a0director of\u00a0the\u00a0magnificent <a href=\"http:\/\/gamecity.org\/\">GameCity Festival<\/a>, and\u00a0with Professor James Newman also works on\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk\/Collection\/NewMedia\/NationalVideogameArchive.aspx\">National Videogame Archive<\/a>. Between the\u00a0festival and\u00a0the\u00a0archive, their work concentrates on\u00a0plotting the\u00a0cultural place of\u00a0games, in\u00a0terms of\u00a0both what they are now and\u00a0what they once were. Recently though, they have come to\u00a0think that we should let them die.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Simons is the\u00a0director of\u00a0the\u00a0magnificent GameCity Festival, and\u00a0with Professor James Newman also works on\u00a0the\u00a0National Videogame Archive. Between the\u00a0festival and\u00a0the\u00a0archive, their work concentrates on\u00a0plotting the\u00a0cultural place of\u00a0games, in\u00a0terms of\u00a0both what they are now and\u00a0what they once were. Recently though, they have come to\u00a0think that we should let them die. Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}