{"id":751,"date":"2002-04-03T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=751"},"modified":"2002-04-03T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2002-04-03T17:45:57","slug":"751","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Ok&#8230; now tell me&#8230; how ridiculous is this?<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2110-1106-874580.html\" target=_new>http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2110-1106-874580.html<\/A>&nbsp;(read it, the rest of this will be waiting for you when you&#8217;re done ;))<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Ok, how many people think that it is Sony&#8217;s fault that this kid killed himself?&nbsp; Ok, those of you that raised your hand may now click the back button and GO AWAY because you&#8217;re too stupid to be reading my site.&nbsp; Seriously, if the game Everquest was conducive to suicide, considering the number of people that play it I&#8217;m sure we would have a much bigger epidemic on our hands.&nbsp; The kid had mental problems.&nbsp; Is it possible that maybe something in the game contributed to his choice to kill himself?&nbsp; Yes, it&#8217;s possible.&nbsp; But that doesn&#8217;t make Sony at fault.&nbsp; That&#8217;s like saying if a serial killer becomes a serial killer because he saw it in a movie, that that movie is to blame for his becoming a serial killer.&nbsp; No, sorry, that is not the case.&nbsp; It is just stupid to me that such an idea could even be considered.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a terrible thing that it happened&#8230; but Sony is not to blame&#8230;&#8230; and perhaps if the mom noted this bad influence the game was having on him, SHE who KNEW about his mental condition should have stopped him from playing it&#8230;&#8230;&nbsp; but you know, we can&#8217;t consider that option&#8230;..<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok&#8230; now tell me&#8230; how ridiculous is this? http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2110-1106-874580.html&nbsp;(read it, the rest of this will be waiting for you when you&#8217;re done ;)) Ok, how many people think that it is Sony&#8217;s fault that this kid killed himself?&nbsp; Ok, those of you that raised your hand may now click the back button and GO AWAY &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}