{"id":73,"date":"2017-10-16T05:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2017-10-17T03:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:32:04","slug":"the-game-of-identity-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/the-game-of-identity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This freedom to choose one\u2019s own identity and place meaning in the world (and, therefore, on the objects that constitute it) also comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility.\u00a0 And the burden of this responsibility is felt and understood when it configures restricting paradigms within a community.\u00a0 Because such is the result when there are many individual subjects \u2013 not just one \u2013 all with the same power to ascribe essence and ascertain identity.\u00a0 Suddenly, the player may realize that <em>RuneScape 2<\/em>, <em>Dark Souls<\/em>, and any other similarly online video game becomes a game of identity \u2013 just as life is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This freedom to choose one\u2019s own identity and place meaning in the world (and, therefore, on the objects that constitute it) also comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility.\u00a0 And the burden of this responsibility is felt and understood when it configures restricting paradigms within a community.\u00a0 Because such is the result when there are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/the-game-of-identity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Game of Identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}