{"id":475,"date":"2005-11-16T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2005-11-16T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T23:16:00","slug":"justin-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Metroid <\/span>came out, my father complained that Nintendo had missed a great opportunity for making games educational.  He suggested that instead of the apparently random mish-mash of numbers and letters that made up the passwords for the game, they could have set it up so every digit in a long-division problem would need to be entered. <\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward fifteen years, and the Nintendo DS has <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=ja&amp;u=http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ds\/andj\/&#038;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dnintendo%2Bds%2Bbrain%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG\">a brain training &#8220;game<\/a>&#8220;.  As near as I can tell, it&#8217;s a set of daily exercises that are meant to make sure you use all parts of the gray matter.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ign.com\/articles\/631\/631268p1.html\">story on IGN<\/a> does a pretty good job of explaining it. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the weird thing:  it looks kinda fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Metroid came out, my father complained that Nintendo had missed a great opportunity for making games educational. He suggested that instead of the apparently random mish-mash of numbers and letters that made up the passwords for the game, they could have set it up so every digit in a long-division problem would need to [&hellip;]<\/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-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}