{"id":515,"date":"2006-05-03T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T10:05:11","slug":"walk-a-quarter-mile-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/05\/03\/walk-a-quarter-mile-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20060502\/sc_space\/walkaquartermileordie\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20060502\/sc_space\/walkaquartermileordie', 'article');\" target=new>article<\/a> yesterday and thought I would encourage everyone to change their video game purchasing habits.  First, stop ordering games online.  Second, when you go to GameStop, or Best Buy, or Circuit City, or Pick-a-Game-Store, make sure you park a quarter-mile (or more) away from the nearest store, and run as fast as you can to the store to give them your money.  After you get your hands on your new game, run as fast as you can back to your car.  Assuming you successfully navigate the parking lot traffic, the extra exercise may increase your life expectancy.  Who would have figured that video games could be so healthy for you?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this article yesterday and thought I would encourage everyone to change their video game purchasing habits. First, stop ordering games online. Second, when you go to GameStop, or Best Buy, or Circuit City, or Pick-a-Game-Store, make sure you park a quarter-mile (or more) away from the nearest store, and run as fast as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/05\/03\/walk-a-quarter-mile-or-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}