{"id":468,"date":"2008-10-23T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:50:59","slug":"anotherinterestingcomputergame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/anotherinterestingcomputergame\/","title":{"rendered":"Another interesting computer game&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) is just full of surprises. One of my fellow VISTAs was complaining about dying in a game yesterday, and when I asked what she had been playing, she showed me a the UNHCR computer gamed called &#8220;Against All Odds&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playagainstallodds.com\/game_us.html\">http:\/\/www.playagainstallodds.com\/game_us.html<\/a> in which you can choose to play a refugee &#8220;running from persecution&#8221; after a military coup, &#8220;living in a border country,&#8221; or trying to find &#8220;a new life&#8221; (resettling in a new country). Especially fun are the parts where you get interrogated by the government and just see blood dripping onto the screen if you give the wrong answer; trying to click your possessions into a backpack to flee before the soldiers get to your home; and being murdered by the people you ask for help.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/kristin\/unhcr.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) is just full of surprises. One of my fellow VISTAs was complaining about dying in a game yesterday, and when I asked what she had been playing, she showed me a the UNHCR computer gamed called &#8220;Against All Odds&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playagainstallodds.com\/game_us.html\">http:\/\/www.playagainstallodds.com\/game_us.html<\/a> in which you can choose to play a refugee &#8220;running from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}