{"id":27473,"date":"2025-10-11T22:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27473"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:19:51","slug":"why-wont-pokemon-evolve-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27473","title":{"rendered":"Why Won\u2019t Pok\u00e9mon Evolve? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Won\u2019t Pok\u00e9mon Evolve?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Pok\u00e9mon is a game series all about evolution. So why has it taken the franchise so long to evolve? Zachary Small, a culture reporter for The New York Times, breaks down how the company\u2019s structure may stymie innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Zachary Small, Claire Hogan, June Kim and Gabriel Blanco<\/p>\n<p>October 11, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Why Won\u2019t Pok\u00e9mon Evolve? Pok\u00e9mon is a game series all about evolution. So why has it taken the franchise so long to evolve? Zachary Small, a culture reporter for The New York Times, breaks down how the company\u2019s structure may stymie innovation. By Zachary Small, Claire Hogan, June Kim and Gabriel Blanco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[14620,5135,1862,3982,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-27473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-evolve","9":"tag-pokemon","10":"tag-times","11":"tag-wont","12":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}