{"id":798,"date":"2006-05-10T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/05\/10\/poll-four-in-10-americans-play-video-games\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:49","slug":"poll-four-in-10-americans-play-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/05\/10\/poll-four-in-10-americans-play-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Four in 10 Americans play video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?522\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rather than reach for the television remote control when she wants to be entertained, Karalyn Valente goes online to play &#8220;EverQuest,&#8221; &#8220;Ultima Online&#8221; and other video games &#8212; a gaming habit shared by millions in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Valente, a 29-year-old graphic artist from York, Pennsylvania, said she devotes about 30 hours a week in vast online worlds and spent more than $1,500 on games last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I watch less and less TV. I turn it on and the shows are just idiotic,&#8221; Valente said. &#8220;When I play the games, I actually look through the character&#8217;s eyes. I actually become the character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a new AP-AOL Games poll, 40 percent of American adults play games on a computer or a console. Men, younger adults and minorities were most likely to play those games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: Rather than reach for the television remote control when she wants to be entertained, Karalyn Valente goes online to play &#8220;EverQuest,&#8221; &#8220;Ultima Online&#8221; and other video games &#8212; a gaming habit shared by millions in the United States. Valente, a 29-year-old graphic artist from York, Pennsylvania, said she devotes about 30 hours a &#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-798","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\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}