{"id":10584,"date":"2020-04-22T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:36:50","slug":"family-video-gaming-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/22\/family-video-gaming-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Video Gaming Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5825214\/video-games-screen-time-parenting-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from TIME Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t Feel Bad If Your Kids Are Gaming More Than Ever. In Fact, Why Not Join Them?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/sean-gregory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEAN GREGORY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Hour of 80&#039;s Video Game Commercials - High Quality\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-qhnh-KRgw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I&#8217;ve been thinking an awful lot about the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/teams\/DET\/1989.html\" target=\"_blank\">1989 Detroit Pistons<\/a>\u00a0over the past few days. Rick Mahorn, the starting power forward, can\u2019t make a goddamn layup. Neither can Dennis Rodman. Isaiah Thomas is missing too many shots. Do I have anyone on my team who can stop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5820473\/michael-jordan-the-last-dance-espn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Jordan<\/a>, who over the past four games is averaging 83.5 points per game against a squad once known as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xqC74bv46Z8\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Bad Boys\u201d<\/a>\u00a0because of its nasty defensive disposition? I\u2019m not seeing much Bad in these Boys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, it would probably be sorry enough if I was consumed by the actual Detroit team that last played an actual NBA game at the outset of the George H.W. Bush administration. But no, I\u2019m talking about the video game version of that championship squad. In&nbsp;<em>NBA 2K20<\/em>, the popular virtual hoops game that for many fans has replaced real basketball during the coronavirus pandemic, you can play using one of many fine historic NBA squads. And currently, my 13-year-old son and I are in a heated best-of-seven series, featuring my \u201889 Pistons versus his 1991 Chicago Bulls, another NBA title team, on our PlayStation 4. He\u2019s up three games to one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a middle-aged man with many adult responsibilities, stressing about\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90-MMxiXI0Q\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Laimbeer\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0minutes during these scary times doesn\u2019t seem very healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5825214\/video-games-screen-time-parenting-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Don&#8217;t Feel Bad If Your Kids Are Gaming More Than Ever. In Fact, Why Not Join Them? BY\u00a0SEAN GREGORY I&#8217;ve been thinking an awful lot about the\u00a01989 Detroit Pistons\u00a0over the past few days. Rick Mahorn, the starting power forward, can\u2019t make a goddamn layup. Neither can Dennis Rodman. Isaiah Thomas is missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}