{"id":341,"date":"2006-04-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2006-08-18T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:28:16","slug":"must-read-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/25\/must-read-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All strategy and wargamers should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/42\/13\">Greg Costikyan&#8217;s contribution<\/a> to this week&#8217;s Escapist. It&#8217;s a great little summary of the evolution of board and paper games, including strategy and wargames. I don&#8217;t as eagerly endorse the conclusions he draws for the computer gaming industry, but his account of the history of gaming is full of juicy nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Like, did you know that wargamers were the first to use the term &#8220;gamers&#8221; as reference to their community? I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All strategy and wargamers should read Greg Costikyan&#8217;s contribution to this week&#8217;s Escapist. It&#8217;s a great little summary of the evolution of board and paper games, including strategy and wargames. I don&#8217;t as eagerly endorse the conclusions he draws for the computer gaming industry, but his account of the history of gaming is full of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-5v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}