{"id":947,"date":"2007-06-21T17:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/21\/laura-croft-rides-again\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T21:47:26","slug":"laura-croft-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/21\/laura-croft-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Croft Rides Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamers with Jobs has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/32747\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/32747', 'article');\" style=\"border-bottom-style: groove\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> about gender portrayals in games (specifically, those wonderful assets shown off on most female gaming characters).  You can read the opening paragraph to see where this is going:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGood old Lara Croft and her faithful sidekicks are back again. And by sidekicks, I mean her chest, her short-shorts, and the perennial argument about the portrayal of women in video games.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is on the longish side, but is worth a read if these sort of things interest 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>Gamers with Jobs has an interesting article about gender portrayals in games (specifically, those wonderful assets shown off on most female gaming characters). You can read the opening paragraph to see where this is going: \u201cGood old Lara Croft and her faithful sidekicks are back again. And by sidekicks, I mean her chest, her short-shorts, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/21\/laura-croft-rides-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lara Croft Rides Again<\/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-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}