{"id":27400,"date":"2014-05-14T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/reimagining-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2014-05-14T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T20:32:26","slug":"reimagining-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/reimagining-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bonus.kottke.org\/post\/85722928513\/reimagining-monopoly\">jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mike Merrill <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/capitally\/re-thinking-the-game-of-monopoly\">reimagines the game of Monopoly<\/a> to better represent the modern financial system by adding the banker as a player, convertible notes, and Series A financing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Each player starts with only $500. That\u2019s a nice bit of cash, but it\u2019s going to be expensive to build your capitalist empire. Baltic Avenue will cost you $80, States Avenue is $140, Atlantic is $260, and that leaves you just $20. Even if you\u2019re the first to land on Boardwalk you won\u2019t be able to afford the $400 price tag. Another $200 from \u201cpassing Go\u201d is not going to last that long. You need more money.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the game the banker will offer each player a convertible note of $1000 at a 20% discount and 5% interest*. Armed with $1500 the player is now ready to set out on their titan of the universe adventure! (Of course players are not required to take the convertible note.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds fun? (via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/\">waxy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jkottke: Mike Merrill reimagines the game of Monopoly to better represent the modern financial system by adding the banker as a player, convertible notes, and Series A financing. Each player starts with only $500. That\u2019s a nice bit of cash, but it\u2019s going to be expensive to build your capitalist empire. Baltic Avenue will cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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-27400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-77W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400","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=27400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}