{"id":272,"date":"2006-07-13T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=272"},"modified":"2006-07-13T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T08:40:20","slug":"the-primate-likes-a-game-of-ms-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/07\/13\/the-primate-likes-a-game-of-ms-pac-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Primate Likes a Game of Ms. Pac-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludology.org\">Gonzalo<\/a>, I <em>must<\/em> link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vqvRjHaDX6M\">this clip of a chimpanzee playing Ms. Pac-Man<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>As far as I have read recently, some mammals such as humans, pigs, and chimpanzees will perform mental challenges just for the fun of it, but lemurs will <em>only <\/em>do it for food.<br \/>\nI think this means that frivolousness is a sure sign of intelligence. Good to know in the summer heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Gonzalo, I must link to this clip of a chimpanzee playing Ms. Pac-Man: As far as I have read recently, some mammals such as humans, pigs, and chimpanzees will perform mental challenges just for the fun of it, but lemurs will only do it for food. I think this means that frivolousness is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/07\/13\/the-primate-likes-a-game-of-ms-pac-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Primate Likes a Game of Ms. Pac-Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}