{"id":39631,"date":"2013-09-12T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/?p=39631"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:11:27","slug":"a-videogame-about-cancer-god-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2013\/09\/a-videogame-about-cancer-god-and-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Videogame about Cancer, God, and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A videogame about cancer, God, and hope? It\u2019s not only possible, it\u2019s a reality. Over at Think Christian, Drew Dixon provides <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkchristian.net\/mourning-and-hoping-alongside-that-dragon-cancer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an in-depth look at That Dragon, Cancer<\/a>. Says lead developer Ryan Greene: \u201cI hope that by sharing weakness, players will trust us and by accepting our invitation to walk with us through this valley we\u2019ve journeyed through with cancer, maybe they will be able to trust in Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A videogame about cancer, God, and hope? It\u2019s not only possible, it\u2019s a reality. Over at Think Christian, Drew Dixon provides an in-depth look at That Dragon, Cancer. Says lead developer Ryan Greene: \u201cI hope that by sharing weakness, players will trust us and by accepting our invitation to walk with us through this valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Videogame about Cancer, God, and Hope<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A videogame about cancer, God, and hope? It&#039;s not only possible, it&#039;s a reality. 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