{"id":957,"date":"2008-05-20T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/chris-farrell-returns\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T16:44:25","slug":"chris-farrell-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/chris-farrell-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Farrell Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Farrell is one of the best commentators on board and wargames, so when he wrapped up his blog in late 2006, my weekly trawl through the internet was a little empty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminatinggames.com\/Illuminating_Games\/Blog\/Blog.html\">Well, he&#8217;s back with a new blog<\/a> full of old content and a couple of new posts. I don&#8217;t write a lot about board games here, of course, but as I age I find I really appreciate how important they are for crystallizing design ideas. The best board games have to think more about their players than the best video games do, I think, because you can&#8217;t have a 100 page manual and blinking icons.<\/p>\n<p>(Spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/\">Yehuda Berlinger&#8217;s blog<\/a>, another great board game observer.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Farrell is one of the best commentators on board and wargames, so when he wrapped up his blog in late 2006, my weekly trawl through the internet was a little empty. Well, he&#8217;s back with a new blog full of old content and a couple of new posts. I don&#8217;t write a lot about [&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":[14,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}