{"id":605,"date":"2005-10-19T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T02:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=605"},"modified":"2005-10-19T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T02:24:15","slug":"more-on-civilization-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"More on Civilization Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civanon.org\/\">CivAnon<\/a>, an organization devoted to helping persons addicted to the computer game <i>Civilization<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=550\">about a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a spoof organization, a really good marketing ploy, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Poking around their website I found their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civanon.org\/movies\/trailer.mov\">public service announcement<\/a> which features some of the funniest characters I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.  An elderly woman talking about learning to split the atom.  A social cripple and his bathroom problems.  A politician with an obscured face talking about Latin.  Hilarious stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, people.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civanon.org\/movies\/trailer.mov\">The movie rocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re talking <i>Civilization<\/i>, why not plug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeciv.org\/\">FreeCiv<\/a>?  FreeCiv is a freeware adaptation of the original <i>Civilization<\/i>, tailored for modern computers.  And did I mention, it&#8217;s a <i>free<\/i> download?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned CivAnon, an organization devoted to helping persons addicted to the computer game Civilization about a month ago. It&#8217;s a spoof organization, a really good marketing ploy, if you ask me. Poking around their website I found their public service announcement which features some of the funniest characters I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=605\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;More on Civilization Anonymous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[787,4110,4091],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-civilization","tag-history","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}