{"id":4475,"date":"2011-03-21T02:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2011-03-21T02:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:15:02","slug":"repost-gamesetwatch-opinion-brian-moriartys-apology-for-roger-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/21\/repost-gamesetwatch-opinion-brian-moriartys-apology-for-roger-ebert\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: GameSetWatch &#8211; Opinion: Brian Moriarty&#039;s Apology For Roger Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The title of this lecture, &#8220;An Apology for Roger Ebert,&#8221; may require a bit of clarification.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not here to offer an apology in the sense of regret for anything done wrong.<br \/>\nThis is an apology in the sense of a Greek apologia, the systematic defense of a position or opinion.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a defense of Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times who, a little over five years ago, annoyed our industry by declaring that &#8220;video games can never be art.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor those few of you unacquainted with this controversy, I&#8217;ll spend just a few minutes recounting what happened.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2011\/03\/opinion_brian_moriartys_apolog.php\">GameSetWatch &#8211; Opinion: Brian Moriarty&#8217;s Apology For Roger Ebert<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this lecture, &#8220;An Apology for Roger Ebert,&#8221; may require a bit of clarification. I&#8217;m not here to offer an apology in the sense of regret for anything done wrong. This is an apology in the sense of a Greek apologia, the systematic defense of a position or opinion. It&#8217;s a defense of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/21\/repost-gamesetwatch-opinion-brian-moriartys-apology-for-roger-ebert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: GameSetWatch &#8211; Opinion: Brian Moriarty&#039;s Apology For Roger Ebert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}