{"id":41,"date":"2002-10-12T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2002-10-12T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T23:30:04","slug":"why-girls-dont-like-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Why girls don&#8217;t like computer games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting explanation for why most girls don&#8217;t like computer games, backed up by <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=42047&amp;amp;amp;cid=4430063\">experience<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=42047&amp;amp;amp;cid=4431413\">research<\/a>. And it&#8217;s not just that &#8220;boys like shooting; girls like shopping.&#8221;<br \/>\nGirls tend to find repetitive shoot-em-ups boring. Girls like solving puzzles more than competing, and enjoy reaching goals rather than scoring points.<br \/>\nThis explanation sounds plausible and certainly resonates for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting explanation for why most girls don&#8217;t like computer games, backed up by experience and research. And it&#8217;s not just that &#8220;boys like shooting; girls like shopping.&#8221; Girls tend to find repetitive shoot-em-ups boring. Girls like solving puzzles more than competing, and enjoy reaching goals rather than scoring points. This explanation sounds plausible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why girls don&#8217;t like computer games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}