{"id":5816,"date":"2009-11-18T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:42:30","slug":"online-civic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5816","title":{"rendered":"online civic games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a frenzied work day, these are sites I should <em>not <\/em>be visiting&#8211;but they are great ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impact-inc.org\/\">Impact-Inc. <\/a>is a game (modeled on Mafia Wars) that lets you simulate running a nonprofit organization. <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/impact-inc\/\">This is where <\/a>to click and play if you have a Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redistrictingthenation.com\/\">Redistricting the Nation <\/a>opposes gerrymandered electoral districts&#8211;one of our most serious political problems&#8211;and their site offers an opportunity to draw your own (imaginary) districts.<\/p>\n<p>Our Courts (started by Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor) provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcourts.org\/play-games\/do-i-have-a-right\">Do I Have A Right?<\/a> (a game in which you are a constitutional lawyer), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcourts.org\/play-games\/supreme-decision\">Supreme Decision<\/a> (in which you are clerk to a Supreme Court justice).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a frenzied work day, these are sites I should not be visiting&#8211;but they are great ideas. Impact-Inc. is a game (modeled on Mafia Wars) that lets you simulate running a nonprofit organization. This is where to click and play if you have a Facebook account. Redistricting the Nation opposes gerrymandered electoral districts&#8211;one of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}