{"id":647,"date":"2011-10-03T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2011-10-03T22:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:56:18","slug":"simulacra-and-simulation-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Simulacra and Simulation (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EA Sports <em>Grand Slam Tennis<\/em> game for the Wii offers you the chance to play either as a famous tennis player or using an avatar that you create to represent yourself (or, I suppose, someone else). I usually play as &#8220;myself&#8221; but the other evening decided to play as John McEnroe. I selected a random opponent, and despite the odds, with most avatars in the game being famous players, it selected an avatar that someone else had created.<\/p>\n<p>This was a weird experience &#8211; I was playing as not-myself, whilst my opponent was an avatar of someone I know but being controlled by the computer. This gets very confusing. It could have been moreso\u2014the randomly chosen avatar could have been myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis game for the Wii offers you the chance to play either as a famous tennis player or using an avatar that you create to represent yourself (or, I suppose, someone else). I usually play as &#8220;myself&#8221; but the other evening decided to play as John McEnroe. I selected a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}