{"id":2031,"date":"2008-08-09T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T18:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2008-08-09T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T18:56:52","slug":"professor-demoted-for-video-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/08\/09\/professor-demoted-for-video-game-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Demoted For Video Game Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say it ain&#8217;t so Hasbro, say it aint so.   From an NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2008\/08\/08\/93417780\/hasbro-gives-clue-board-game-a-makeover?ft=1&amp;f=1008\">story<\/a> on a makeover of the game &#8220;Clue&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The characters have changed, too. Miss Scarlet has a first name: Cassandra. Colonel Mustard left the military; he&#8217;s a former football star. Victor Plum, formerly the professor who was always known as the smartest man in the room, became recast as a self-made video game designer &#8212; a dot-com billionaire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take that you stuffy academic professors, with your padded elbows and your pipes and your uncombed Einstein hair: you&#8217;re no longer the smartest person in the room (unless you&#8217;ve made a video game, that is.)  But I still think you were the murder, in the spa, with the baseball bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say it ain&#8217;t so Hasbro, say it aint so. From an NPR story on a makeover of the game &#8220;Clue&#8221;: The characters have changed, too. Miss Scarlet has a first name: Cassandra. Colonel Mustard left the military; he&#8217;s a former football star. Victor Plum, formerly the professor who was always known as the smartest man &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/08\/09\/professor-demoted-for-video-game-designer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Demoted For Video Game Designer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-the-loony-bin-called-academia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}