{"id":60,"date":"2006-09-13T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2006\/09\/13\/fun-for-the-whole-family\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T03:16:17","slug":"fun-for-the-whole-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2006\/09\/13\/fun-for-the-whole-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun for the whole family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a big Trivial Pursuit fan, I really like these <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=09271570\">Instructive Conversation Cards<\/a>, which I suppose were the closest thing the early 19th century had to offer. It&#8217;s unfortunate, though, that the very first fact they offer about Samuel Johnson is wrong; he was born in 1709, not 1706. (Either that or we&#8217;re way behind on the planning for the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/houghton\/conference_johnson.html\">tercentenary symposium<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conversation1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2006\/09\/Conversation1.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"710\" alt=\"Conversation2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2006\/09\/Conversation2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a big Trivial Pursuit fan, I really like these Instructive Conversation Cards, which I suppose were the closest thing the early 19th century had to offer. It&#8217;s unfortunate, though, that the very first fact they offer about Samuel Johnson is wrong; he was born in 1709, not 1706. (Either that or we&#8217;re way behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}