{"id":1081,"date":"2007-10-05T00:08:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T07:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/10\/virtual_dishes_are_more_fun_to\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T07:08:32","slug":"virtual_dishes_are_more_fun_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/virtual_dishes_are_more_fun_to.php","title":{"rendered":"Virtual dishes are more fun to clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got around to trying my kids&#8217; recent video game purchase &#8212; The <a href=\"http:\/\/thesims2.ea.com\/about\/console\/index_pets_ps2.php\">Sims 2 Pets<\/a>. In the game, you build a home and life for your virtual self, attending to your various life needs (hunger, fatigue, companionship, and so on) by directing your character&#8217;s actions. In this version, you can also adopt and train pets.<\/p>\n<p>I get a job. I go to work. I learn to cook. I clean the dirty dishes. I try to remember to bathe. I play with the cat. I clean the litter box. I fill the food bowl. I sleep when I&#8217;m tired. And I work to build responsive relationships with my neighbors and housemates (by talking, joking, flirting, listening).<\/p>\n<p>When I finally achieve some level of happiness in the virtual world, I flip off the PlayStation to go to bed&#8230;only to discover that, in my real world, the cat&#8217;s food dish is empty, the litter box is full, the dishes are dirty, and my family&#8217;s fast asleep.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd universe we&#8217;ve constructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got around to trying my kids&#8217; recent video game purchase &#8212; The Sims 2 Pets. In the game, you build a home and life for your virtual self, attending to your various life needs (hunger, fatigue, companionship, and so on) by directing your character&#8217;s actions. In this version, you can also adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}