{"id":9982,"date":"2006-10-02T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/02\/who-says-gaming-isnt-educational.html"},"modified":"2006-10-02T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T04:37:51","slug":"who_says_gaming_isnt_educ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/02\/who_says_gaming_isnt_educ.html","title":{"rendered":"Who says gaming isn’t educational?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In high school I studied Julius Caesar<\/em>, Macbeth<\/em> and Hamlet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In college, I performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it’s only lately<\/a> that I’ve had a hankering to read Romeo & Juliet<\/a> …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In high school I studied Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet. In college, I performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But it’s only lately that I’ve had a hankering to read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[36,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133709,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/tear-him-for-his-bad-verses.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":0},"title":""Tear him for his bad verses!"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jun-17 5:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Cinna the Poet runs into a mob while traveling to Caesar's funeral. Upon learning that his name is Cinna, the same name as one of the conspirators, the mob turns on him.CINNA THE POET: I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.FOURTH CITIZEN: Tear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37812,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/film-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-1981.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":1},"title":"Film Review: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1981)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Jun-13 9:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So this was not the edition of the play I was looking for -- I was looking for the 1968 version with Judi Dench as Titania and Helen Mirren as Hermia. Instead, I got the 1981 version with Helen Mirren as Titania ... which wasn't bad, but a scosh disappointing.As\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/if-we-spirits-have-offended.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":2},"title":"If we spirits have offended","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Jun-13 9:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a great time at \"A Midsummer Night's Dream,\" put on by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (http:\/\/www.coloradoshakes.org\/) up in Boulder. \u00a0It was an excellent production (some sound system glitches aside), and +Margie Kleerup\u00a0and I had a lovely picnic dinner with +Mary Oswell\u00a0and +Stan Pedzick\u00a0beforehand.I was in a production of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":148485,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/stage-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-arvada-center.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":3},"title":"Stage Review: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Arvada Center","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Feb-20 11:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a big fan of the play; this production was one of the best I've seen.","rel":"","context":"In "Stage"","block_context":{"text":"Stage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-stage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":131930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/04\/getting-on-board-for-the-bard.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":4},"title":"Getting on board for the Bard","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Nov-16 7:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Got our advance notice of what the Colorado Shakespeare Festival [http:\/\/www.coloradoshakes.org\/] is serving up next summer. It's going to be an excellent line-up -- Julius Caesar (the first Shakespeare I read), Hamlet (which Kay has been reading recently), and Taming of the Shrew (always a hoot). For their modern production\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1006129_497715360300733_540055972_n5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1006129_497715360300733_540055972_n5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1006129_497715360300733_540055972_n5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/at-the-colorado-shakespeare-fe.html","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":5},"title":"At the Colorado Shakespeare Fe…","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Jun-13 7:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for \"Midsummer Night's Dream\". Bottom FTW!","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}