Free Speech? Random Scenario Generator

Posted on by Tom Woodward

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Talking to Dan about his sports law course resulted in this random generator which might be fun for others. It’s still developing but I like the potential for reinforcing some concepts about free speech in a fun way that allows you to repeatedly explore the topic without it getting tedious.

I thought this would be a few minutes of work but I believe that Google has shifted the structure of their JSON feeds from the Spreadsheet. It could also be that I am insane. This particular experience did remind, rather unpleasantly, that I don’t fully understand how nested JSON parsing works. I ended up in the right place but only through about 40 minutes of slamming my head into various walls of misunderstanding.

I also need to spend a bit of time applying the DRY concept to this bloated mess. 

<body >
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="row bar">
            <div class="col-md-offset-2 col-md-10 col-sm-12">
                <h2>FREE SPEECH?</h2><!-- HEADER -->
                
            </div>                        
      </div>  

<script type="text/javascript">                
     

 var url = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1onuK8HASnYWKR5qapphhL-yCxzWWOFzR0VhJ_9zZD4E/1/public/values?alt=json";

$.getJSON(url, function(data) {

  var html = '';

  var entry = data.feed.entry;
  var upperLimit = entry.length;
  var randSpeaker = Math.floor(Math.random() * upperLimit);
  var randLocation = Math.floor(Math.random() * upperLimit); 
  var randSpeech = Math.floor(Math.random() * upperLimit);   
  var randRestrictor = Math.floor(Math.random() * upperLimit);   
  var randRestriction = Math.floor(Math.random() * upperLimit);   
  
    html += '<div class="item"><div class="lead">The Person: </div><div class="speaker var ">' + entry[randSpeaker]['gsx$speaker']['$t'] + '</div></div>';
    html += '<div class="item"><div class="lead">The Location: </div><div class="location var ">' + entry[randLocation]['gsx$location']['$t'] + '</div></div>';
    html += '<div class="item"><div class="lead">The Speech: </div><div class="speech var ">' + entry[randSpeech]['gsx$speech']['$t'] + '</div></div>';
    html += '<div class="item"><div class="lead">The Restrictor: </div><div class="restrictor var ">' + entry[randRestrictor]['gsx$restrictor']['$t'] + '</div></div>';
    html += '<div class="item"><div class="lead">The Restriction: </div><div class="restriction var ">' + entry[randRestriction]['gsx$restriction']['$t'] + '</div></div>';

  $('.speech').append(html);

  
});


  </script>

<div class="row">
<div class="speech col-md-offset-2 col-md-8 col-sm-12"></div>
</div>

<div class="row">
<a href="https://rampages.us/extras/freespeech/"><div class="button">New Scenario</div></a>
</div>
</body>