{"id":2344,"date":"2005-12-04T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2005-12-12T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T00:50:45","slug":"the-monopoly-on-free-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/the-monopoly-on-free-money\/","title":{"rendered":"the monopoly on free money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/halfgrand.png' alt='from a familiar note' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/monopoly\/pl\/page.treasurechest\/dn\/default.cfm\">It&#8217;s a licence to print money!<\/a> Well, Monopoly\u00c2\u00ae money, that is. But you can&#8217;t have everything; it doesn&#8217;t stop people from trying, though.<\/p>\n<p><em>The above image is copyrighted, trademarked, service-marked and intellectually-propertized 15-ways-to-Sunday by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/\">Hasbro<\/a>. I hereby acknowledge that I&#8217;m a very naughty person to have nicked it for my website, and have felt good and contrite for at least the last 5 (five) seconds. But then, since Hasbro own the rights to my earliest published writings (long story: they bought Database Publications, for whom I used to write) and are sitting on the goldmine that is the film rights to <strong>Stardodger<\/strong> (my first, and only, game), I think they&#8217;ve done okay from me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a licence to print money! Well, Monopoly\u00c2\u00ae money, that is. But you can&#8217;t have everything; it doesn&#8217;t stop people from trying, though. The above image is copyrighted, trademarked, service-marked and intellectually-propertized 15-ways-to-Sunday by Hasbro. I hereby acknowledge that I&#8217;m a very naughty person to have nicked it for my website, and have felt good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1302,481,1045,1019,432,510,1113,650,235,150,1121,1396,166,1129,199,115,985,1024,1269,858,49,608],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-ack","tag-cat","tag-copy","tag-copyright","tag-film","tag-free","tag-ice","tag-ink","tag-intel","tag-led","tag-long","tag-money","tag-old","tag-owl","tag-peo","tag-shed","tag-tab","tag-trad","tag-ugh","tag-web","tag-wordpress","tag-zed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-BO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}