{"id":41,"date":"2010-03-05T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utopusdiscovered.wordpress.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:17:18","slug":"ultimate-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/ultimate-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Utopia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2010\/03\/ultimateutopia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2010\/03\/ultimateutopia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>The social networking beast that is Facebook usually allows a couple of sponsored ads off to the right of whatever the interface looks like this month, and this one caught my eye because of the attention grabbing headline: &#8220;Ultimate Utopia.&#8221;\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 I&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s some utopian online gamer out there who knows anything about <em>SocialCity<\/em>?\u00a0 There&#8217;s not much information about the game available, but here&#8217;s what I was able to find out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>SocialCity<\/em> was developed by the social gaming developers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playdom.com\">Playdom<\/a>\u2014the same guys who brought you <em>Mobsters<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appdata.com\/facebook\/apps\/index\/id\/163965423072\">AppData<\/a>, who provide, according to their website, &#8220;Independent, Accurate Facebook Application Metrics and Trends from Inside Facebook,&#8221; the object of the game is to &#8220;Build and run your own virtual city. Create the perfect place for the people that call it home, and you\u2019ll become the most loved and revered mayor of all time!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I, for one, get really annoyed by all the gaming apps on facebook, and so don&#8217;t play them (though I did have a brief foray into <em>Mobsters<\/em>).\u00a0 Nevertheless, there is some utopian energy going on here, and I thought I should bring it to <em>Utopus<\/em> readers&#8217; attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social networking beast that is Facebook usually allows a couple of sponsored ads off to the right of whatever the interface looks like this month, and this one caught my eye because of the attention grabbing headline: &#8220;Ultimate Utopia.&#8221;\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/ultimate-utopia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneotopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lSaF-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}