{"id":446,"date":"2008-04-03T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=446"},"modified":"2008-04-04T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:21:32","slug":"alitalia-no-games-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/04\/03\/alitalia-no-games-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Alitalia: No Games for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian airline Alitalia is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/03\/business\/worldbusiness\/03cnd-alitalia.html\">floundering<\/a>, so let me kick them when they&#8217;re down.<\/p>\n<p>I was flying with them last summer, and to my surprise the cabin crew informed me that I was not allowed to use my Nintendo DS <em>for the duration of the flight<\/em>. Lo and behold, the safety instructions specifically illustrate that you can&#8217;t play Gameboy. Why? Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get into a philosophical discussion with the crew regarding their definition of games, the distinction between playing a game on a PDA (which they allowed) and on a dedicated device, and whether the ban only concerned games played with a D-pad. They did not bite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nogameboy.jpg\" alt=\"No games for you\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian airline Alitalia is floundering, so let me kick them when they&#8217;re down. I was flying with them last summer, and to my surprise the cabin crew informed me that I was not allowed to use my Nintendo DS for the duration of the flight. Lo and behold, the safety instructions specifically illustrate that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/04\/03\/alitalia-no-games-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alitalia: No Games for You&#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-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}