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Designer of ‘Great Hunger’ board game about the Irish famine denies that it is ‘offensive’<\/a>  The JournalA famine-inspired board game<\/a>  Newstalk\u2018I know that doesn\u2019t excuse it\u2019 \u2013 Creator of Irish Famine board game responds to backlash<\/a>  Extra.ieUS company’s Irish Famine board game in ‘very poor taste’ – Irish Emigration Museum<\/a>  Newstalk\u2018Never NOT at it\u2019 \u2014 American company to turn Irish tragedy into new board game<\/a>  Extra.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Designer of ‘Great Hunger’ board game about the Irish famine denies that it is ‘offensive’  The JournalA famine-inspired board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[124606,59528,124607,71871,124608,94065,124609,42,100655,47726,43,124610,124611,124612,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-248001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-gorta-mor","tag-backlash","tag-board-game","tag-controversial","tag-divided-opinions","tag-famine","tag-forced-starvation","tag-headlines","tag-hunger-games","tag-liveline","tag-news","tag-strong-opinions","tag-the-famine","tag-the-great-hunger","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}