{"id":31868,"date":"2010-11-09T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/becker-college-in-massachusetts-took-an-unusual\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:12:41","slug":"becker-college-in-massachusetts-took-an-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/becker-college-in-massachusetts-took-an-unusual\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Becker College, in Massachusetts, took an unusual step to encourage participation in the state\u2019s upcoming gubernatorial election\u2014the institution commissioned a video game about it. The free online game, Race for the Ballot, allows players to select one of the state\u2019s four gubernatorial candidates and steer the politician around a running track before time runs out on Election Day. Along the way, the players have to avoid politically themed obstacles of pork-barrel spending, red tape, and, of course, the other candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/college-students-develop-video-game-to-spark-interest-in-voting\/27935\">College Students Develop Video Game to Spark Interest in Voting &#8211; Wired Campus &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becker College, in Massachusetts, took an unusual step to encourage participation in the state\u2019s upcoming gubernatorial election\u2014the institution commissioned a video game about it. The free online game, Race for the Ballot, allows players to select one of the state\u2019s four gubernatorial candidates and steer the politician around a running track before time runs out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868","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=31868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}