{"id":17,"date":"2011-02-11T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/02\/the-end-of-youth-group-guitar-hero.html"},"modified":"2011-03-23T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:31:51","slug":"the-end-of-youth-group-guitar-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/02\/the-end-of-youth-group-guitar-hero.html","title":{"rendered":"The End of Youth Group Guitar Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youth leaders everywhere lost one future option for lock-in entertainment when Activision announced the end of their Guitar Hero video game series yesterday. \u00a0For years Guitar Hero has provided something else for teenagers to put their hormonal hands on besides each other.<\/p>\n<div>While some may see this as a chance for teenagers to actually learn how to play a real guitar, forward thinking youth leaders have already made the extra room in their budgets for a full Rock Band.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The devout, however, only have one real option:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/117\/import\/guitar-praise-hero.jpg\" alt=\"guitar-praise-hero.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"178\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/theprophetofpop\">Click here to follow the Prophet of Pop on\u00a0<strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prophetofpop\">on\u00a0<strong>Facebook<\/strong>!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth leaders everywhere lost one future option for lock-in entertainment when Activision announced the end of their Guitar Hero video game series yesterday. \u00a0For years Guitar Hero has provided something else for teenagers to put their hormonal hands on besides each other. 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