{"id":20108,"date":"2017-10-10T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20108"},"modified":"2017-10-10T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:18:27","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-october-10-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20108","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8212; October 10, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/playanything.jpg\" alt=\"Play Anything Cover Image\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Play Anything<\/strong>: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, &amp; the Secret of Games<br \/>\nby Ian Bogost<br \/>\n<a title=\"call number\" href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=UWI71396742820002121&amp;context=L&amp;vid=WW&amp;search_scope=default_scope&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;lang=en_US\">BF408 .B566 2016<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Bogost, a philosopher and game designer, writes about everyday life and the strategic way that everyone should approach mundane tasks. He argues that if we treat grocery shopping like playing sports (that is, accepting the seemingly arbitrary rules and restrictions inherent in games as also applicable to mundane tasks) we can learn to &#8220;play anything&#8221; by having fun interacting with the world around us.\u00a0He hopes that by following his advice we can learn to interact with the world and the things in it in ways that give us feelings of comfort, not boredom or frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, &amp; the Secret of Games by Ian Bogost BF408 .B566 2016 New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor Bogost, a philosopher and game designer, writes about everyday life and the strategic way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}