{"id":27294,"date":"2014-06-07T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-2008-she-began-a-design-exercise-that-expanded\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:05:40","slug":"in-2008-she-began-a-design-exercise-that-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-2008-she-began-a-design-exercise-that-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27294 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-2008-she-began-a-design-exercise-that-expanded\/attachment\/27295\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n6t89fq7Ik1qescwho1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In 2008, she began a design exercise that expanded into a series called \u201cThe Mechanic Is the Message\u201d \u2014 analog (not video) games that use game mechanics, boards, pieces, and rules to help a player think through hard problems. Her game \u201cThe New World\u201d was an attempt to explain U.S. slavery, and the experiences of the people caught in it, to her young daughter. \u201cS\u00edoch\u00e1n leat\u201d (Gaelic for \u201cpeace be with you\u201d) explores the complex history of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/2014\/06\/03\/lets-play-mexican-kitchen-workers\/\">Let\u2019s play Mexican Kitchen Worker | ideas.ted.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, she began a design exercise that expanded into a series called \u201cThe Mechanic Is the Message\u201d \u2014 analog (not video) games that use game mechanics, boards, pieces, and rules to help a player think through hard problems. Her game \u201cThe New World\u201d was an attempt to explain U.S. slavery, and the experiences of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-76e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27296,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294\/revisions\/27296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}