{"id":3446,"date":"2011-09-12T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2011-09-12T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:00:25","slug":"prof-mike-abbott-85-quoted-in-the-new-yorker-mag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/09\/12\/prof-mike-abbott-85-quoted-in-the-new-yorker-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mike Abbott &#039;85 quoted in The New Yorker mag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. of Theater <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/academics\/profiles\/home.cfm?site_folder=theater&amp;facname=abbottm\">Mike Abbott &#8216; 85 <\/a>\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/09\/Abbott.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3447\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/09\/Abbott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>quoted in an August \u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em> article\u00a0about video-game acting\/actors :\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cMichael Abbott, a professor of theatre at Wabash College and the proprietor of an influential gaming blog, told me, &#8220;You&#8217;d expect players to be tired of hearing Jennifer Hale&#8217;s voice after dozens of games, but she&#8217;s made herself untraceable. She&#8217;s played everything from a love-struck English schoolgirl to a stoic, battle-tested soldier. She&#8217;s a chameleon. It helps that she has a knack for making exposition and technical language sound like dinner conversation.&#8221;\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.newyorker.com\/?i=2011-08-15#folio=048\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Bissell, Profiles, \u201cVoicebox 360,\u201d The New Yorker, August 15, 2011, p. 48 <\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/08\/25\/prof-mike-abbott-85-in-the-news\/\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more on Mike\u2019s use of\u00a0computer games in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. of Theater Mike Abbott &#8216; 85 \u00a0was quoted in an August \u00a0New Yorker article\u00a0about video-game acting\/actors :\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cMichael Abbott, a professor of theatre at Wabash College and the proprietor of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}