{"id":399,"date":"2016-10-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:32:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:32:49","slug":"hobby-vs-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2016\/10\/14\/hobby-vs-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby vs responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my hobbies is video gaming. In my teen years, I would spend on average of 60-80 hours a week playing either Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, or any other Valve software title. It was not until I went to college and got a job when my average went to 30-40 hours a week. After being married and having children, my average is now down to 8-12 hours a week. As my responsibilities increased, my hobby time decreased. I would consider myself addicted to video games (i.e. I cannot stop playing them); however, I do not feel like I am missing out from partaking in my hobby. Here is what I have done to lower my addiction to video games:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I stopped playing multiplayer FPS<\/li>\n<li>I only buy video games that run on Linux<\/li>\n<li>I play during specific time frames only<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My current favorite game is Factorio &#8211; you crash landed on a distant planet and have to build a rocket to escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my hobbies is video gaming. In my teen years, I would spend on average of 60-80 hours a week playing either Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, or any other Valve software title. It was not until I went to college and got a job when my average went to 30-40 hours a week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}