{"id":815,"date":"2014-12-29T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-12-29T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:32:29","slug":"girls-and-minecraft-a-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Minecraft, a quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/aisha-tyler-gamer-culture\/\">http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/aisha-tyler-gamer-culture\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later in the discussion Tyler also brought up a story she heard on public radio about how playing video games at an early age causes kids to be more interested in computer science when they get older, and how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/04\/285744084\/can-playing-minecraft-teach-kids-to-code\"><em>Minecraft<\/em> in particular<\/a> is drawing an\u00a0exceptional number\u00a0girls because of its focus on creation and world-building.\u00a0\u201cThe more girls that play <em>Minecraft<\/em>,\u201d she noted, \u201cthe more girls get really curious about how these worlds work and how they\u2019re composed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/aisha-tyler-gamer-culture\/ Later in the discussion Tyler also brought up a story she heard on public radio about how playing video games at an early age causes kids to be more interested in computer science when they get older, and how\u00a0Minecraft &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming-and-women","category-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}