{"id":306,"date":"2003-10-28T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2003-10-28T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T05:24:10","slug":"connect-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Connect Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not the type of person who has a problem accepting change. Life cannot remain stagnant, otherwise there’s never room for improvement. However, I really really hate it when companies change the design of their board games. Don’t they realize that we grew up with a particular game and have a fondness for it? First they changed Candy Land. Then they changed Aggravation. And now, they’ve changed Connect Four<\/a>. To some, it’s not a big deal. But to me, it is. It’s just wrong to change the color of the pieces. It’s a downright travesty! When I saw the new Connect Four at Target I couldn’t bear to buy it even though I love the game and Joe’s kids expressed interest in it. It’s just not right, and I couldn’t do it.<\/p>\n

So when I came across the original version<\/a> at Walmart, I snapped it right up. And I suggest you do the same before it’s gone forever. Run to Walmart right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not the type of person who has a problem accepting change. Life cannot remain stagnant, otherwise there’s never room for improvement. However, I really really hate it when companies change the design of their board games. Don’t they realize that we grew up with a particular game and have a fondness for it? First they changed Candy Land. Then they changed Aggravation. And now, they’ve changed Connect Four. To some, it’s not a big deal. But to me, it is. It’s just wrong to change the color of the pieces. It’s a downright travesty! When I saw the new Connect Four at Target I couldn’t bear to buy it even though I love the game and Joe’s kids expressed interest in it. It’s just not right, and I couldn’t do it. So when I came across the original version at Walmart, I snapped it right up. And I suggest Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}