{"id":5140,"date":"2013-07-17T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:29:46","slug":"build-your-first-game-using-scratch-on-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5140","title":{"rendered":"Build your first game using Scratch on the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/software\/applications\/build-your-first-game-using-scratch-on-the-raspberry-pi-1164882\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CBN41.tut_scratch.newsprite-580-751.jpg' alt='Build your first game using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi | News | TechRadar' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TechRadar have just published an in-depth tutorial on creating your first game using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/software\/applications\/build-your-first-game-using-scratch-on-the-raspberry-pi-1164882\">Read the tutorial here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechRadar have just published an in-depth tutorial on creating your first game using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi.\u00a0Read the tutorial here<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5140\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-programming","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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