{"id":20667,"date":"2014-02-16T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=20667"},"modified":"2014-02-16T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:36:02","slug":"the-great-language-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/16\/the-great-language-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Language Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Great Language Game<\/a><\/p>\n

I got 600 so far … What about you?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The Great Language Game I got 600 so far … What about you?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[243,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-20667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-games","tag-language","tag-world","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11606,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/game-research-pottery-writing-alphabet\/","url_meta":{"origin":20667,"position":0},"title":"Game research : pottery, writing, alphabet","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a few more words to add to the yesterday's post \"History of the world through a game\".\u00a0 Something that bothered me in several games, but something that never annoyed me enough to look up or express - the connection between pottery, writing, and alphabet. 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