{"id":2012,"date":"2018-03-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2018-02-26T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:29:23","slug":"tasman-game-a-prisoners-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/tasman-game-a-prisoners-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasman Game &#8211; A Prisoner&#8217;s Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2023\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost.jpg 500w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tasmanblogpost-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>I love to create games. I made dozens when I taught school and I continue to make math games for my Educating America blog and as free online teacher resources <a href=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamerica\/resources-for-teachers-volunteers\/\"><strong>(links here)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since Tasman is a different kind of story, I decided to create a game to use with guests at my book events. It&#8217;s easy. Roll a die. Even numbers select from one set of cards; odd numbers select from another. Some make a quick journey through London and maybe the court system of 1850; others will make the long journey from London to Port Arthur and learn their fate.<\/p>\n<p>My first book event is a drop-in two days from now. It&#8217;s a perfect time to test of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REMEMBER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Win a $20 VISA card. Write a review of Tasman\u2014An Innocent Convict&#8217;s Struggle for Freedom. Post it on Amazon, Goodreads, and Facebook and be entered for a random drawing held quarterly in 2018. Details on the door hangers and on www.tasman\/paddyeger.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 **<strong>The first drawing is coming up on March 31!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to create games. I made dozens when I taught school and I continue to make math games for my Educating America blog and as free online teacher resources (links here). Since Tasman is a different kind of story, I decided to create a game to use with guests at my book events. It&#8217;s easy. Roll a die. Even numbers select from one set of cards; odd numbers select from another. Some make a quick journey through London and maybe the court system of 1850; others will make the long journey from London to Port Arthur and learn their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,263,249],"tags":[272,271],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-novel","category-book-events","category-tasman","tag-reviewer-drawing","tag-tasman-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}