{"id":58,"date":"2006-10-27T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/10\/27\/here-and-now-monopoly-updated-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T13:35:44","slug":"here-and-now-monopoly-updated-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"here and now &#8211; monopoly updated: follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally been released, and I had a chance to play the new game with some friends recently who bought a copy. Following-up from my previous <a href=\"\/2006\/04\/26\/here-and-now-monopoly-updated\/\">post<\/a>, thankfully the publishers didn&#8217;t totally bork the game. The balance of the game is still good because all they did to update to &#8216;here and now&#8217; was to multiply all of the dollar values by 10,000. That&#8217;s right &#8211; &#8216;Boardwalk&#8217; (now Fenway Park) costs $4,000,000 not $400. All of the railroads have been swapped for airports, and the utilities include an ISP and no Water Works.<\/p>\n<p>Playing that game was fun &#8211; and not just because I owned over half the property within 45 minutes \ud83d\ude42 (in a four-player game!). It was fun because the game is still the same &#8211; the values are just larger, and the properties more representative of the US as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you thought politics really was honorable, you can now buy the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally been released, and I had a chance to play the new game with some friends recently who bought a copy. Following-up from my previous post, thankfully the publishers didn&#8217;t totally bork the game. The balance of the game is still good because all they did to update to &#8216;here and now&#8217; was to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">here and now &#8211; monopoly updated: follow-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}