{"id":103620,"date":"2019-11-13T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=435208"},"modified":"2019-11-13T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:43:14","slug":"meet-spencer-allen-a-passionate-gamer-and-relentless-creator-whos-on-a-mission-to-help-everyone-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/13\/meet-spencer-allen-a-passionate-gamer-and-relentless-creator-whos-on-a-mission-to-help-everyone-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Spencer Allen: a passionate gamer and relentless creator who\u2019s on a mission to help everyone game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/meet-spencer-allen-a-passionate-gamer-and-relentless-creator-whos-on-a-mission-to-help-everyone-game.gif\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"biggerLine c-paragraph-1 x-type-left\">Giving up has never been a phrase that existed in Spencer\u2019s vocabulary. From the time he was a little boy, his parents instilled upon him and his siblings the importance of pushing through, even when things got hard. \u201cI think our family has always been people who accept what we have, work with it, and don&#8217;t dwell on things that aren&#8217;t going as well as we&#8217;d like,\u201d says Spencer\u2019s mom, Sue. \u201cThat&#8217;s always been the way of this family: supporting each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"biggerLine c-paragraph-1 x-type-left\">The spirit of determination helped Spencer grow as a high school skier and lacrosse player, and eventually become the captain for both teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving up has never been a phrase that existed in Spencer\u2019s vocabulary. From the time he was a little boy, his parents instilled upon him and his siblings the importance of pushing through, even when things got hard. \u201cI think our family has always been people who accept what we have, work with it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[63,50],"class_list":["post-103620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-accessibility","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}