The Oregon Trail<\/em> was just … a video game<\/a>. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/otrailVT2.png\")
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In our postmodernist world of video games, the mythos says that typhoid and malnutrition and all the other hardships are imaginary objects in a rearview mirror.<\/p>\n
But the mythos is mistaken about that. <\/p>\n
And about most everything else too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The era of the Oregon Trail was less than two centuries ago, pretty much no-time by any standard. A couple of lifetimes. Almost half a million people took that trail, facing cholera and starvation and drowning and other disasters, and poured into the Willamette Valley and points nearby. La, Civilization. 150 years after they did, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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