{"id":3024,"date":"2006-03-21T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:13:49","slug":"wherein-brian-fails-to-feign-outrage-over-partisan-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/wherein-brian-fails-to-feign-outrage-over-partisan-board-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Brian Fails To Feign Outrage Over Partisan Board Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/stories.nsf\/visitstlouis\/story\/EC7B0526F9E9B364862571370055922B?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Go directly to Guantanamo! It&#8217;s Patriot Act board game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this send-up of &#8220;Monopoly,&#8221; players don&#8217;t pass &#8220;Go&#8221; and they don&#8217;t go directly to jail &#8212; they go to Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of losing cash for landing on certain squares, they lose civil liberties. And the &#8220;Mr. Monopoly&#8221; character at the center of the board is replaced by a scowling former Attorney General John Ashcroft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patriot Act: The Home Version&#8221; pokes fun at &#8220;the historic abuse of governmental powers&#8221; by the recently renewed anti-terrorism law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I would feign some sort of indignation at this misrepresentation of government power, but honestly, how can a capitalist like me not enjoy seeing even a person with an opposing viewpoint indulging in free market profit making without the fear that either of us will be dragged from our beds tonight and summarily executed?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I still have my deck of the Clinton Impeachment card game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go directly to Guantanamo! It&#8217;s Patriot Act board game: In this send-up of &#8220;Monopoly,&#8221; players don&#8217;t pass &#8220;Go&#8221; and they don&#8217;t go directly to jail &#8212; they go to Guantanamo Bay. Instead of losing cash for landing on certain squares, they lose civil liberties. And the &#8220;Mr. Monopoly&#8221; character at the center of the board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18841,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/18841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}