{"id":8,"date":"2019-03-19T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:17:01","slug":"willys-walk-to-see-grandmamma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/willys-walk-to-see-grandmamma\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy&#8217;s Walk to See Grandmamma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>1869, A. N. Myers &amp; Co., London, England.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morality-themed games popular in the 19th century, a player is usually rewarded for doing good and penalized for behaving badly. But <em>Willy\u2019s Walk<\/em> is unusual for the genre: Players can be rewarded for laziness and made to miss turns for good deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>23. Give a poor child an apple and miss one turn.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift of Ellen Liman \u201857<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/04\/Willys-Walk-To-See-Grandmamma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1433\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/04\/Willys-Walk-To-See-Grandmamma.jpg\" alt=\"Willy's Walk to See Grandmamma game instructions\" class=\"wp-image-429\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1869, A. N. Myers &amp; Co., London, England. In the morality-themed games popular in the 19th century, a player is usually rewarded for doing good and penalized for behaving badly. But Willy\u2019s Walk is unusual for the genre: Players can be rewarded for laziness and made to miss turns for good deeds. \u201c23. Give a <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/willys-walk-to-see-grandmamma\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Willy&#8217;s Walk to See Grandmamma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":462,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}