{"id":496,"date":"2007-01-09T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=496"},"modified":"2007-01-09T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T12:29:12","slug":"zone-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Zone of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Kirschenbaum has a new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/zoi.wordherders.net\">Zone of Influence<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/zoi.wordherders.net\">zoi.wordherders.net<\/a>), in which he talks about games  and, specifically, board wargames.  In his &#8220;Welcome&#8221; post, Matt describes these types of games as &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ncardboard computers; they are instruments for modeling, prediction, and prognostication, but by their nature they are open source with the algorithms laid bare in numerically expressed outcomes on charts and tables. The only \u00e2\u20ac\u0153black box\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the designer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intentions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has several posts available already, so be sure to read them all and, of course, leave comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}