{"id":84,"date":"2009-08-31T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-08-31T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:06:57","slug":"games-catch-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/games-catch-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Games catch on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that one way Esperanto could receive a good deal of notice is if it appeared in a popular video game. Perhaps appearing as a coded language of some kind would motivate people to learn it. As matters stand, I&#8217;ve only glimpsed Esperanto in one video game: the weird and wonderful Katamari Damacy.<\/p>\n<p>One of the characters greets you with &#8220;<strong>saluton<\/strong>!&#8221; in the beginning of Katamari Damacy&#8217;s final level. I find it appropriate that the greeting comes from the purported &#8220;King of All Cosmos.&#8221; He rules the universe, so of course he&#8217;d approve of a universal language! You can glimpse a video of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmfBALhBwkw\">on YouTube<\/a>. I highly recommend the game or any of its sequels, too&#8230;It&#8217;s rather hilarious, as the rest of the video suggests!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that one way Esperanto could receive a good deal of notice is if it appeared in a popular video game. Perhaps appearing as a coded language of some kind would motivate people to learn it. As matters stand, I&#8217;ve only glimpsed Esperanto in one video game: the weird and wonderful Katamari Damacy&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/games-catch-on\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}