{"id":452,"date":"2009-05-19T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=452"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:51:50","slug":"a-brief-history-of-combat-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/a-brief-history-of-combat-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Combat Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-6jn_52XF0 400]<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nOur dear friend <strong>Ross Sutherland<\/strong> has outdone himself again with this menacing piece of retro-futurism, a back-mutated urban prophesy, if you will.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRoss has also been presenting previews of his new show, <strong>The Three Stigmata of Pacman<\/strong>, in London and Brighton. We&#8217;ve seen it and recommend you do too.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nMany of Ross&#8217;s wondrous creations (including his Pacman tryptych)\u00a0are collected in his debut book\u00a0<strong>Things To Do Before You Leave Town<\/strong>, which can be purchased for \u00a36.99 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=38\">right here<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Things-Before-You-Leave-Town\/dp\/0955384648\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1224521054&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/waterstonesweb\/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6354900\" target=\"_blank\">Waterstones<\/a>. Award-winning poet Luke Kennard describes it as &#8216;Refreshingly fearless and bleakly funny&#8217; and we wouldn&#8217;t argue with him &#8211; he&#8217;s won awards, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-6jn_52XF0 400] \u00a0\u00a0 Our dear friend Ross Sutherland has outdone himself again with this menacing piece of retro-futurism, a back-mutated urban prophesy, if you will. \u00a0 Ross has also been presenting previews of his new show, The Three Stigmata of Pacman, in London and Brighton. We&#8217;ve seen it and recommend you do too. \u00a0\u00a0 Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16277,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/16277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}