{"id":368,"date":"2006-07-26T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-07-26T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T14:59:02","slug":"the-game-is-up-for-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"The game is up for cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monopoly money could become obsolete after the makers of the 70-year old game introduced a new version where players fund property purchases using a debit card.<\/p>\n<p>The Visa-branded card inserts into an electronic machine where the banker taps in cardholders&#8217; earnings and payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/07\/24\/umonopoly.xml\">The Telegraph<\/a> gets in on the press release recycling scam. Naturally you will pay dearly for the card version!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately if this takes off a wave of children will grow up associating cards with financial purchases rather than cash &#8211; a salami slice off the (sometimes) untraceable economy. Another step towards the fully audited life, perhaps the Home Office should come up with an immigration control game with a biometric scanner included &#8211; they could get BBQ to give them away on Blue Peter. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to a nice simple game of dominoes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monopoly money could become obsolete after the makers of the 70-year old game introduced a new version where players fund property purchases using a debit card. The Visa-branded card inserts into an electronic machine where the banker taps in cardholders&#8217; earnings and payments. The Telegraph gets in on the press release recycling scam. Naturally you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}