{"id":6827,"date":"2006-08-11T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2006-08-11T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T10:26:08","slug":"and-thats-why-we-home-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6827","title":{"rendered":"AND THAT&#8217;S WHY WE HOME EDUCATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1040_22-6103571.html\">quote<\/a> ought to suffice here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rockstar, the maker of best-selling video game series &#8220;Grand Theft Auto,&#8221; said on Wednesday it would launch in October &#8220;Bully,&#8221; a game with themes of school fighting that has antiviolence critics up in arms.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies at a fictional U.S. boarding school called Bullworth Academy, while dealing with characters ranging from nerds and jocks to authoritarian prefects.<\/p>\n<p>Weapons included baseball bats that break after several blows, stink bombs and bags of marbles that when strategically thrown will lay flat most pursuers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong>&#8220;We think the school environment is a universal experience that so many people relate to,&#8221; <\/strong>said Walker, who added that criticism of &#8220;Bully&#8221; is unique in that it had preceded the release of the game, which has been kept under tight wraps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote ought to suffice here: Rockstar, the maker of best-selling video game series &#8220;Grand Theft Auto,&#8221; said on Wednesday it would launch in October &#8220;Bully,&#8221; a game with themes of school fighting that has antiviolence critics up in arms. The game&#8217;s main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}