{"id":2125,"date":"2012-06-01T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:01:15","slug":"thing-of-the-week-agricola-all-creatures-big-and-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Thing of the week: Agricola, All Creatures Big And Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I got a copy of the new Uwe Rosenberg game, &#8220;Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small&#8221;. It&#8217;s a new 2-player spin-off from &#8220;Agricola&#8221;, which is pretty much my favourite board game of all time. It&#8217;s a neat game, and I&#8217;m fairly impressed by it. So much so, that I was inspired to make a short video for the Board Game Geek site&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71nlI_I7cdY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I much prefer being behind a camera, rather than in front of it&#8230; so &#8212; fortunately &#8212; you&#8217;re spared any footage of me gurning out of your screen. I do talk a fair bit though. I&#8217;m always a bit surprised by the sound of my own voice&#8230; so far, the video has resulted in 3 different e-mails from people fascinated by my accent(!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s maybe a bit dry for anybody who <strong>isn&#8217;t<\/strong> obsessively interested in the minutia of new board games, but it seems to be generating lots of positive feedback on its <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/video\/17554\/agricola-all-creatures-big-and-small\/a-first-look-at-agricola-all-creatures-big-and-s\">BGG page<\/a>. Which is nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, this upload was the first time that I&#8217;ve run afoul of YouTube&#8217;s copyright moderation team. In the past, I&#8217;ve uploaded umpteen gig \/ promo videos (while acting on the behalf of the artists involved, but YouTube had no way of knowing this), and a lot of the stuff I upload for Averil&#8217;s site has morris dancing etc going on in the background which &#8212; lets face it &#8212; it&#8217;s <strong>highly<\/strong> unlikely I went and secured the mechanical rights for. Yet, for some reason, <strong>this<\/strong> ends up being the one video that YouTube&#8217;s people won&#8217;t let me monetize with adsense. Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I got a copy of the new Uwe Rosenberg game, &#8220;Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small&#8221;. It&#8217;s a new 2-player spin-off from &#8220;Agricola&#8221;, which is pretty much my favourite board game of all time. It&#8217;s a neat game, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,6,18],"tags":[88,112,36],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-game-geek-board-games","category-board-games","category-video","tag-agricola","tag-all-creatures-big-and-small","tag-youtube","tumblog-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}