{"id":55105,"date":"2016-07-14T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_if_pokemon_go_feels_like_a_religion_thats_because_it_kind_of_is\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:25:14","slug":"guardian_if_pokemon_go_feels_like_a_religion_thats_because_it_kind_of_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55105","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) If Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon Go feels like a religion, that&#39;s because it kind of is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to roaming the streets, interacting with invisible beings that now inhabit our cities.<\/p>\n<p>These fanatics speak in a special language, undertake hours of devotional activity, and together experience moments of great joy and great sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It is an obsession, many say, that has taken over their lives, and for which they will sacrifice their bodies. They understand the world in a way the uninitiated cannot.<\/p>\n<p>What sounds like a sudden global religious conversion, is, of course, the launch of Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon Go, an augmented reality smartphone game that has restarted the popular culture phenomenon of Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon. In many ways, however, Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon and religion are not so far apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/jul\/12\/pokemon-go-addictive-game-shares-much-with-religious-devotion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to roaming the streets, interacting with invisible beings that now inhabit our cities. These fanatics speak in a special language, undertake hours of devotional activity, and together experience moments<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55105\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,94,582,149,155,108,95,34,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}