{"id":1364,"date":"2006-11-06T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/06\/childs-play-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:26:00","slug":"childs-play-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/06\/childs-play-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s Play 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to take the edge off your liberal guilt this holiday season, look no further than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childsplaycharity.org\/\">Child&#8217;s Play<\/a>, a charity organized by the Penny Arcade guys to benefit sick children in five countries&#8211; and, as a bonus, combat the public perception that gamers (and video games) are good for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>In their own words: &#8220;We collect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/Ark\/00000333.shtml\">no administrative fees<\/a> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">[my link -ed.]<\/span> or other charges, 100% of all gifts and donations go directly to our partner hospitals, to help make life a little brighter for a sick child&#8230; When gamers give back, it makes a difference!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t handle the pressure of actually selecting which games or toys to donate?  You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=childsplaycharity@penny-arcade.com&amp;item_name=Childs%2BPlay%2BCharity&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0%C2%A4cy_code=USD\">make a monetary contribution via PayPal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to take the edge off your liberal guilt this holiday season, look no further than Child&#8217;s Play, a charity organized by the Penny Arcade guys to benefit sick children in five countries&#8211; and, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}