{"id":12,"date":"2019-03-19T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:38:44","slug":"the-cottage-of-content-or-right-roads-and-wrong-ways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/the-cottage-of-content-or-right-roads-and-wrong-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cottage of Content, or Right Roads and Wrong Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>1848, William Spooner, London, England.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its moral message, <em>The Cottage of Content<\/em> achieves its aims through humor. Notice \u201cBlanket Row,\u201d in which a group playfully tosses a man in the air, or \u201cFrog Island,\u201d where dancing frogs wear formal dress. Players advance along curving roads and encounter rewards and forfeits along the way, including \u201cPay 2 for folly\u201d or \u201cTake 2 for being charitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift of Ellen Liman \u201857<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1204\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/03\/Liman-VictorianGames-115-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Cottage of Content, or Right Roads and Wrong Ways game poster\" class=\"wp-image-125\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1136\" height=\"1600\" data-id=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/03\/IMG_6598.jpg\" alt=\"'Description of the Game' for 'The Cottage of Content\" class=\"wp-image-110\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1848, William Spooner, London, England. Despite its moral message, The Cottage of Content achieves its aims through humor. Notice \u201cBlanket Row,\u201d in which a group playfully tosses a man in the air, or \u201cFrog Island,\u201d where dancing frogs wear formal dress. Players advance along curving roads and encounter rewards and forfeits along the way, including <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/the-cottage-of-content-or-right-roads-and-wrong-ways\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Cottage of Content, or Right Roads and Wrong Ways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}