{"id":435,"date":"2010-05-01T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T16:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:23:09","slug":"career-advice-from-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/career-advice-from-ebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Advice from Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I follow Roger Ebert&#8217;s blog.  I don&#8217;t just like his reviews (which I find concise, insightful and entertaining) but his perspective on life is refreshingly sensible.  He&#8217;s got his head squarely on his shoulders, and without being inflexible or unwilling to accept change he is unswayed by the mad fashions of the new and extreme.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/04\/the_golden_age_of_movie_critic.html\">his latest post<\/a> he reflects on how movie criticism is no longer a viable career.  It&#8217;s been taken over by bloggers and hobbyists, and has been thus improved.  The confidence and humility he expresses is, itself, humbling.<\/p>\n<p>He then offers this career advice: <b>Find out all you can, and see what you can do with it.<\/b>  I love that!  Truly the heart of being a lifetime academic.  Why did none of my college professors ever introduce me to Ebert&#8217;s writing?<\/p>\n<p>So when he says video games are not fine art, I don&#8217;t really have a problem with that.  The man&#8217;s got a lot more experience than me, and for him to say video games are mere entertainments isn&#8217;t much of an insult&#8230; he&#8217;s made a living on lots of entertainments and a little bit of art.  What do I think?  I think a lot of art goes into games, and that games can be elegant and beautiful and meaningful.  I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re fine art, and if they were, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d want to play them (with the exception of certain interactive fiction which feels more like literature than game).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I follow Roger Ebert&#8217;s blog. I don&#8217;t just like his reviews (which I find concise, insightful and entertaining) but his perspective on life is refreshingly sensible. He&#8217;s got his head squarely on his shoulders, and without being inflexible or unwilling to accept change he is unswayed by the mad fashions of the new and extreme&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}