{"id":7510,"date":"2004-01-05T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/01\/05\/episcopopoly\/"},"modified":"2004-01-05T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T18:33:26","slug":"episcopopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/01\/episcopopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Episcopopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/local\/archives\/04\/01\/45115242.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"228\" height=\"136\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">It&#8217;s loosely based on the classic capitalist game Monopoly, but it&#8217;s intended to teach kids about stewardship. And unlike the Parker Brothers perennial best seller, &#8221;Episcopopoly&#8221; is about more than just money. Instead of building houses and hotels, the object is to build a church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;The squares on the board are all churches and seminaries that agreed to help financially sponsor the first 3,500 games, which are almost all sold out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Instead of choosing to be a top hat, a race car or a dog, players move around the board using tokens such as a baptismal font, a lamb, a dove or the bell tower from the University of the South, an Episcopal college and seminary in Sewanee, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Instead of cards denoted &#8221;Chance&#8221; and &#8221;Community Chest,&#8221; players can draw cards when they land on either &#8221;time, talent and treasure&#8221; or &#8221;operating budget.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/local\/archives\/04\/01\/45110515.shtml?Element_ID=45110515\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I can see why they wouldn&#8217;t have &#8220;go to jail.&#8221;  That might be just too realistic for some Diocese; both Episcopal and Catholic.  I think I would have preferred Grace to replace Chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s loosely based on the classic capitalist game Monopoly, but it&#8217;s intended to teach kids about stewardship. And unlike the Parker Brothers perennial best seller, &#8221;Episcopopoly&#8221; is about more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}