{"id":457,"date":"2008-05-28T04:47:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=457"},"modified":"2008-05-31T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T06:04:26","slug":"five-years-of-the-ludologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/05\/28\/five-years-of-the-ludologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years of The Ludologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the fifth anniversary of this blog. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p>Some little known information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging continues to be fun. I never had the kind of blog crisis that I hear about. The frequency varies, but there are always more things to blog.<\/li>\n<li>The blog title is somewhat tongue in cheek, and perhaps always a little too close to Gonzalo Frasca&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludology.org\">Ludology.org<\/a> blog.<\/li>\n<li>The title should suggest a magazine for &#8220;ludologists&#8221; the same way there is a magazine called <em>The Economist<\/em>. It was not to suggest that <em>I<\/em> am <em>the<\/em> ludologist.<\/li>\n<li>The most popular post ever was the one with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=171\">Spore screenshots.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The description &#8220;My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a ludologist&#8221; is supposed to sound like Alcoholics Anonymous. I liked the idea that it would be something you would be somewhat embarrassed to admit to being, but also something you could never quite escape from.<\/li>\n<li>Until October 2007 I was running the blog on a Linux server of which I was the administrator. Now I can&#8217;t be bothered with that sort of thing.<\/li>\n<li>I am blogging this in Singapore.<\/li>\n<li>Video game studies are progressing nicely in my opinion, but the long tradition of play research seems to be constantly ignored.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s official: The new conflict in video game studies is between those who study players and those who study games.<\/li>\n<li>The magic circle is for real.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=11\">the first post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the fifth anniversary of this blog. Who would have thought? Some little known information: Blogging continues to be fun. I never had the kind of blog crisis that I hear about. The frequency varies, but there are always more things to blog. The blog title is somewhat tongue in cheek, and perhaps always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/05\/28\/five-years-of-the-ludologist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five years of The Ludologist&#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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}