{"id":407,"date":"2006-08-29T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/29\/chaucer-plays-civ\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T16:18:46","slug":"chaucer-plays-civ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/29\/chaucer-plays-civ\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaucer plays Civ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the bane of first year English majors has had a <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/ich-pwne-noobs.html\">chance to look at some video games<\/a>. Civilization caught his eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erst, ye do governe the civilisacioun of the Golden Age, and gathir acornes and the croppes that the erthe ytself doth yive forth withouten labour. Lowys sayeth that this part of the game \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsucketh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for ther ys no werre or fightinge. And then oon of yower folke fyndeth golde in the grounde, and an othir iren for to make wepnes of werre and thus the golden age doth ende.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/buttonmashing.com\/2006\/08\/28\/geoffrey-chaucer-is-a-gamer\/trackback\/\">Buttonmashing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the bane of first year English majors has had a chance to look at some video games. Civilization caught his eye. Erst, ye do governe the civilisacioun of the Golden Age, and gathir acornes and the croppes that the erthe ytself doth yive forth withouten labour. Lowys sayeth that this part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-6z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}