{"id":30200,"date":"2012-09-10T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/and-yet-another-item-for-the-christmas-list.html"},"modified":"2012-09-11T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:46:20","slug":"and-yet-another-item-for-the-christmas-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/and-yet-another-item-for-the-christmas-list.html","title":{"rendered":"And yet another item for the Christmas List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do want. \u00a0(And I don&#39;t think we actually have \u00a0a copy of Monopoly around the house.)<\/p>\n<p>(Looking on Amazon, it looks like there have been other Doctor Who Monopoly games published &#8212; and they&#39;re all \u00a0quite pricey. \u00a0This one is the 50th Anniversary edition. Will have to look it up later in the year.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2Fdoctor-who-monopoly-11-300x300.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2012\/09\/10\/rec-re-ate-rec-re-ate-doctor-who-celebrates-50-with-special-edition-monopoly\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geeksAreSexyTechnologyNews+%28%5BGeeks+are+Sexy%5D+technology+news%29'>\u201cREC-RE-ATE! REC-RE-ATE!\u201d: \u2018Doctor Who\u2019 Celebrates 50 with Special Edition Monopoly<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe brought you World of Warcraft Monopoly and Nintendo Monopoly, but now the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance: The &#39;Doctor Who&#39; edition of the classic game.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MucsSN7oma7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do want. \u00a0(And I don&#39;t think we actually have \u00a0a copy of Monopoly around the house.) (Looking on Amazon, it looks like there have been other Doctor Who Monopoly games published &#8212; and they&#39;re all \u00a0quite pricey. \u00a0This one is the 50th Anniversary edition. Will have to look it up later in the year.) Embedded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/and-yet-another-item-for-the-christmas-list.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And yet another item for the Christmas List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136306,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/a-monopoly-on-providing-police-body-cameras-what-can-go-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":30200,"position":0},"title":"A monopoly on providing police body cameras &#8230; what can go wrong?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-May-18 7:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Monopolies are generally not good. 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