{"id":2702,"date":"2012-11-15T02:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2012-11-23T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T05:52:42","slug":"board-game-merchant-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/board-game-merchant-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Game:  Merchant of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First play of <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/131646\/merchant-of-venus-second-edition\">Merchant of Venus<\/a> (the second edition).  We played the &#8220;Standard&#8221; game (the new version).  The opposite side of the board has the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/230\/merchant-of-venus\">Classic&#8221; game<\/a>, from 1988!  We only got through about 17 of the 30 rounds before calling it.  Fun &#8211; and will go significantly faster now that we have the mechanics, etc. down.  \n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2702 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/merchantOfVenusBox.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[2702]\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/merchantOfVenusBox-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/merchantOfVenusBox-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/merchantOfVenusBox-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/merchantOfVenusBox.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2740'>\n\t\t\t\tMerchant of Venus\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0044_export.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[2702]\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0044_export-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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We played the &#8220;Standard&#8221; game (the new version). The opposite side of the board has the &#8220;Classic&#8221; game, from 1988! We only got through about 17 of the 30 rounds before calling it. Fun &#8211; and will go significantly faster now that we have the mechanics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}