{"id":324,"date":"2010-10-06T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-10-06T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:38:05","slug":"famous-board-games-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2010\/10\/06\/famous-board-games-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Board Games Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife works at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsinmo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kids In Motion<\/a> and a few years ago I threw together their website including some photos she had taken. One of them was a cropped version of this image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/madpickles\/5038205748\/\" title=\"Canonical Board Games Image by madpickles, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/5038205748_9f68a2c394.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Canonical Board Games Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site doesn&#8217;t get much traffic, but I recently started experimenting with Google AdWords and Analytics for my own site and wondered what sort of statistics were being generated by the Kids In Motion site. I was surprised to see the most frequently requested URL was to an image, board_games.jpg. Here are a few sites that are directly linking to it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.pasadenaisd.org\/education\/components\/sectionlist\/default.php?sectiondetailid=27210&#038;linkid=nav-menu-container-4-81880\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">scroll down to &#8220;The Librarian&#8217;s Guide To Gaming&#8221;<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popshoponline.com\/stores\/new_index.asp?StoreID=124&#038;EventID=76\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">board games night<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/omgitscookies.livejournal.com\/23417.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Top 13 Old School Board Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was curious how they came across the image so I searched for <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=board+games\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">board games<\/a> in Google. Low and behold the first result is my wife&#8217;s Kids In Motion photo (though this particular site decided to copy the image vs. directly linking to it). So somehow, the Internet has decided it&#8217;s the canonical board games image. This is even more awesome than when Digg was going through a &#8220;photos of goats&#8221; stage and someone thought one of my Flickr photos was a good example of <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/news\/story\/Three_Rupicaprid_Ninjas_Climb_A_Steep_Cliff_Wall\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rupicaprid Ninjas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife works at Kids In Motion and a few years ago I threw together their website including some photos she had taken. One of them was a cropped version of this image: The site doesn&#8217;t get much traffic, but I recently started experimenting with Google AdWords and Analytics for my own site and wondered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}