{"id":1023,"date":"2015-02-18T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2015-02-18T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:03:21","slug":"he-monopolized-her-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"He &#8216;Monopolized&#8217; Her Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>The story you&#8217;ve always heard about Monopoly the board game isn&#8217;t quite the whole truth. \u00a0Who knew that a woman created a version of the game years before Charles Darrow, the depression era &#8220;savior&#8221; of Parker Brother&#8217;s? Elizabeth Magie was quite a\u00a0progressive woman for her time. \u00a0She supported herself, didn&#8217;t marry until the age of 44 and spent her free time working on a game that would help the world understand how monopolies broke down society and crushed small business. \u00a0How interesting that a man took what a woman began\u00a0and made a fortune? \u00a0Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/15\/business\/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\">Monopoly\u2019s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn\u2019t Pass \u2018Go\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story you&#8217;ve always heard about Monopoly the board game isn&#8217;t quite the whole truth. \u00a0Who knew that a woman created a version of the game years before Charles Darrow, the depression era &#8220;savior&#8221; of Parker Brother&#8217;s? Elizabeth Magie was quite a\u00a0progressive woman for her time. \u00a0She supported herself, didn&#8217;t marry until the age of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He &#8216;Monopolized&#8217; Her Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,78],"tags":[258,256,257,260,259,254,255],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-marketing","tag-board-game","tag-charles-darrow","tag-elizabeth-magie","tag-hasbro","tag-inventor","tag-monopoly","tag-parker-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}