{"id":1453,"date":"2007-10-24T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/2007\/10\/24\/parents-face-real-bills-for-virtual-real-estate\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:53","slug":"parents-face-real-bills-for-virtual-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/10\/24\/parents-face-real-bills-for-virtual-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Face Real Bills for Virtual Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1731\">LinuxInsider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teenagers are using their parents&#8217; credit cards to buy thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of virtual property, including real estate, on Web sites such as Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>NetSafe chief executive Martin Cocker says parents are shocked because they don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s possible to buy something that doesn&#8217;t exist in the real world &#8212; and they don&#8217;t know how fast it&#8217;s possible to spend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From LinuxInsider: Teenagers are using their parents&#8217; credit cards to buy thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of virtual property, including real estate, on Web sites such as Second Life. NetSafe chief executive Martin Cocker says parents are shocked because they don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s possible to buy something that doesn&#8217;t exist in the real world &#8212; and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}