{"id":1148,"date":"2008-05-27T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:59:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:59:52","slug":"measuring-the-impact-of-grand-theft-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/27\/measuring-the-impact-of-grand-theft-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Impact of Grand Theft Auto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto is a notoriously violent and controversial video game.   Writes Bill Marsh at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/11\/weekinreview\/11marsh.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Game players inhabit a gangster who is equipped to dispatch scores of rival criminals and others, including police officers and innocent bystanders, on the rough streets of Liberty City, the bullet-riddled stand-in for New York&#8230; The latest&#8230; allows players to hire prostitutes and then run them over or shoot them right after they&#8217;ve performed their work&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a visual that compares the spectacular success of Grand Theft Auto (measured by units sold and profits) with the most successful music and movies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/0511-nwr-webmarsh-800x611.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1149\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/0511-nwr-webmarsh-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto is a notoriously violent and controversial video game. Writes Bill Marsh at the New York Times: Game players inhabit a gangster who is equipped to dispatch scores of rival criminals and others, including police officers and innocent bystanders, on the rough streets of Liberty City, the bullet-riddled stand-in for New York&#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,229,55,2090,343,1711,285,133],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-consumption","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-tvmovies","tag-toysgames","tag-raceethnicity","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29414,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/29414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}