{"id":488,"date":"2005-12-15T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2005-12-15T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T23:55:00","slug":"lets-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a seminar today in which, among other things, the trainer stated that Generation-X&#8217;ers don&#8217;t like to work in groups because we&#8217;re all latch-key children who came home to empty houses and played Nintendo.  As the only representative of the under-40 crowd in attendance, I decided to hold my tongue.  My thoughts on the root causes of the apathy and indolence of Gen-X aside, I have to confess that I was baffled by the Nintendo being cited as an anti-socializer.  I don&#8217;t remember ever playing videogames by myself as a kid.  I remember my brothers watching me crawl my way through <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Final Fantasy<\/span>, my father spending entire weekends burning every tree and bombing every rock in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Legend of Zelda<\/span> as we logged his progress, my friends and I mastering the intricacies of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pro Wrestling <\/span>and<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> RC Pro Am<\/span>.  For my sixteenth birthday my parents bought me a 12-inch TV for my bedroom, so my brothers just watched my run through <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lifeforce <\/span>there instead. <\/p>\n<p>Lies!  Lies I say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a seminar today in which, among other things, the trainer stated that Generation-X&#8217;ers don&#8217;t like to work in groups because we&#8217;re all latch-key children who came home to empty houses and played Nintendo. As the only representative of the under-40 crowd in attendance, I decided to hold my tongue. My thoughts on [&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-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}