{"id":1627,"date":"2003-10-23T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/23\/monopoly-sues-to-protect-its-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2003-10-23T14:23:54","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T18:23:54","slug":"monopoly-sues-to-protect-its-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/23\/monopoly-sues-to-protect-its-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly Sues to Protect Its Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1565'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"410\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/getop.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        makers of Monopoly are suing the man behind a satirical version called<br \/>\n        Ghettopoly in which &#8216;playas&#8217; compete to build crack houses.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Ghettopoly knockoff has generated a firestorm of controversy<br \/>\n        for its highly offensive, racist content,&quot; said the lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p>        Ghettopoly&#8217;s game-pieces include a gun and marijuana leaf while its logo<br \/>\n        is a caricature of a black man holding a submachine-gun and bottle of<br \/>\n      liquor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_831623.html\">from Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of Monopoly are suing the man behind a satirical version called Ghettopoly in which &#8216;playas&#8217; compete to build crack houses. &quot;The Ghettopoly knockoff has generated a firestorm of controversy for its highly offensive, racist content,&quot; said the lawsuit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/23\/monopoly-sues-to-protect-its-monopoly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}