{"id":4307,"date":"2020-02-01T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2020-02-01T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:59:25","slug":"the-origins-of-the-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4307","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of the Game of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXdBZWyiSLA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Game of Life drew me in as a kid with it&#8217;s colorful 3D mountains, money, car tokens you could put your kids in, and a big candy-like spinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, the original version was used by Milton Bradley (who himself taught some kindergarten classes) as one of his many learning tools which included: educational puzzles, art tools, and even to teach moral instructional. The original game covered such deep topics as poverty, bravery, honor, truth, disgrace, public service, and even suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating look back on where we came from; but makes me think: what would such a game look like today? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game of Life drew me in as a kid with it&#8217;s colorful 3D mountains, money, car tokens you could put your kids in, and a big candy-like spinner. Turns out, the original version was used by Milton Bradley (who himself taught some kindergarten classes) as one of his many learning tools which included: educational puzzles, art tools, and even to teach moral instructional. The original game covered such deep topics as poverty, bravery, honor, truth, disgrace, public service, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4307\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-17t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}