{"id":44824,"date":"2011-01-21T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-learning-company-was-acquired-by-mattel-and\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:36:59","slug":"the-learning-company-was-acquired-by-mattel-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-learning-company-was-acquired-by-mattel-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Learning Company was acquired by Mattel and its glamorous CEO Jill Barad for $3.5 billion. Mattel wanted to do Barbie on the Oregon Trail and other spin-offs. But almost instantly, it was clear a mistake had been made. The Learning Company owned all of the most successful titles in children&rsquo;s educational software\u2014Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? and Reader Rabbit\u2014but had shed many of its most talented programmers. &ldquo;They created a nice balance sheet,&rdquo; says Boe. &ldquo;In reality they ended up with boxes of aging software.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/content\/printVersion\/1740595\/\">Oregon Trail &#8211; City Pages Minneapolis<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Learning Company was acquired by Mattel and its glamorous CEO Jill Barad for $3.5 billion. Mattel wanted to do Barbie on the Oregon Trail and other spin-offs. But almost instantly, it was clear a mistake had been made. The Learning Company owned all of the most successful titles in children&rsquo;s educational software\u2014Oregon Trail, Where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[1537,560],"class_list":["post-44824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","tag-toy","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bEY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44824","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=44824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}