{"id":1007,"date":"2006-04-21T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1007"},"modified":"2006-04-21T02:08:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T07:08:31","slug":"the-fool-and-his-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1007","title":{"rendered":"The Fool and his Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoolsgold.com\/index.htm\">Cliff Johnson&#8217;s games<\/a> &#8220;The Fool&#8217;s Errand&#8221; and &#8220;3 in Three&#8221; with all my heart.  They were puzzly, they were clever, and they were well-written.  I&#8217;ve been anxiously awaiting the release of his next game, &#8220;The Fool and His Money.&#8221;  For a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some quotes about the release date:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The Fool and his Money ships Halloween Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game&#8217;s new release date is currently slotted for December 1st, 2003.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, the Final Official Drop-Dead Sue-Me-for-Damages release date is April Fool\u2019s Day-2004.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I take a deep breathe and whisper&#8230; July 5, 2005&#8230; and run for cover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of you might have noticed that the ever-retreating countdown clock is now set to December 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My production managers, Chicken Little and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, assure me that the final, absolute, no-fooling-around, drop-dead, unequivocal, categorical release date is April 24th, 2006, I hope and pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game ships, August 7th, 2006, a week before my birthday, or else I eat a bug.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Cliff Johnson&#8217;s games &#8220;The Fool&#8217;s Errand&#8221; and &#8220;3 in Three&#8221; with all my heart. They were puzzly, they were clever, and they were well-written. I&#8217;ve been anxiously awaiting the release of his next game, &#8220;The Fool and His Money.&#8221; For a long time. Here are some quotes about the release date: &#8220;The Fool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}