{"id":4942,"date":"2012-05-05T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2012-05-05T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:45:03","slug":"walden-the-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/05\/walden-the-video-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Walden: the Virtual Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wait, Wait<\/a> for this pointer to an exquisite example of irony\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZEQilshSA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Wait, Wait for this pointer to an exquisite example of irony\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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