{"id":40875,"date":"2018-05-13T01:04:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/13\/after-books-and-vinyl-board-games-make-a-comeback\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T01:04:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:04:43","slug":"after-books-and-vinyl-board-games-make-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40875","title":{"rendered":"After books and vinyl, board games make a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tabletop games join trend for \u2018the real thing\u2019 over digital \u2013 and for having fun with other peopleForget Candy Crush, Fifa and Call of Duty \u2013 millennials are putting down their Xbox controllers and smartphones and picking up their dice as they embrace games their parents and grandparents used to love.More and more people are exchanging marathon gaming sessions alone in a darkened room for the social fun of board games. With bars and cafes such as Thirsty Meeples in Oxford, and Draughts in London having a library of more than 800 games catering for the \u201ccocktails and Cluedo\u201d set, board games \u2013 as with colouring books \u2013 are no longer just Christmas presents for children. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/may\/12\/millennials-drive-board-games-revival\" target=\"_blank\">After books and vinyl, board games make a comeback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabletop games join trend for \u2018the real thing\u2019 over digital \u2013 and for having fun with other peopleForget Candy Crush, Fifa and Call of Duty \u2013 millennials are putting down their Xbox controllers and smartphones and picking up their dice as they embrace games their parents and grandparents used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}