{"id":31454,"date":"2011-01-22T03:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-small-apartment-crystal-minnesota-a-history\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:28:29","slug":"in-a-small-apartment-crystal-minnesota-a-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-small-apartment-crystal-minnesota-a-history\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31454 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-a-small-apartment-crystal-minnesota-a-history\/attachment\/31455\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lfdt13FFUG1qescwho1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In a small apartment Crystal, Minnesota, a history teacher spent his nights dreaming up ways to bring his subjects to life. It wasn&rsquo;t until his two math teacher roommates helped turn his ideas into code that Oregon Trail was born. City Pages has an in-depth look at Oregon Trail creator Don Rawitsch, and the game&rsquo;s journey from cut up pieces of cardboard on a living room floor to an international sensation, beloved (and constantly referenced) by millions. It&rsquo;s a fascinating story\u2014with a cameo by Steves Jobs and Wozniak\u2014that&rsquo;s worth the attention of anyone who&rsquo;s ever lost a member of their party to dysentary. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5739267\/where-oregon-trail-forged-its-first-river\">Where Oregon Trail Forged Its First River<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a small apartment Crystal, Minnesota, a history teacher spent his nights dreaming up ways to bring his subjects to life. It wasn&rsquo;t until his two math teacher roommates helped turn his ideas into code that Oregon Trail was born. City Pages has an in-depth look at Oregon Trail creator Don Rawitsch, and the game&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454","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=31454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31456,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454\/revisions\/31456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}