{"id":8706,"date":"2014-02-18T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2014-02-18T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:17:32","slug":"the-board-game-with-economic-theory-land-development-and-cute-little-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-board-game-with-economic-theory-land-development-and-cute-little-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"The board game with economic theory, land development, and cute little buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/currency\/2014\/02\/klaus-teuber-the-settlers-of-catan.html\">New Yorker<\/a> profiles Klaus Teuber, the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/currency\/2014\/02\/klaus-teuber-the-settlers-of-catan.html\">Settlers of Catan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teuber himself is more sanguine. \u201cI do not see that Catan will kill Monopoly,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I hope that Catan will become a permanent classic game beside Monopoly.\u201d In Catan, one player\u2019s success can benefit others, and if you simply form a monopoly on one resource you\u2019ll never win, since you have to have a combination of different elements to get anywhere on the island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker profiles Klaus Teuber, the man behind Settlers of Catan: Teuber himself is more sanguine. \u201cI do not see that Catan will kill Monopoly,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I hope that Catan will become a permanent classic game beside Monopoly.\u201d In Catan, one player\u2019s success can benefit others, and if you simply form a monopoly on one resource you\u2019ll never win, since you have to have a combination of different elements to get anywhere on the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[5030,520,1180,5029],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-klaus-teuber","tag-new-yorker","tag-profile","tag-settlers-of-cat-an","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}