{"id":2125,"date":"2011-11-17T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playthepast.org\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2011-11-17T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:34:09","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.playthepast.org\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Play the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 year ago today, Play the Past<\/em> went live. \u00a0It was the culmination of a process which, I’m not afraid to admit, started out with the kind of\u00a0gluttonous domain registrations\u00a0binge to which many of us are prone. \u00a0Playthepast.org was one of those domains that I was sure I could do something cool with, I just wasn’t sure exactly what. \u00a0I had no idea that it would turn out as epically awesome as it did. \u00a0On a side note, playthepast.org was clearly the winner of that binge, as all of the other domains registered at the same time remain forlorn and unloved.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in our original launch post<\/a>, “Play the Past<\/em> is a collaboratively edited and authored blog dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games\/meaningful play (equally broadly defined).” \u00a0I’m very happy to say that a year later, we’ve held on to this idea quite nicely. \u00a0More importantly, I think we’ve actually grown and evolved the idea by thoughtfully exploring its boundaries, nooks, and crannies. Nooks and crannies, I would like to point out, that I never even considered when I first came up with the idea of Play the Past<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And now some numbers (because a celebratory anniversary type post isn’t complete without some numbers).<\/p>\n