{"id":611,"date":"2018-11-01T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:51:14","slug":"home-scrabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Home: Scrabble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa and I love a game of Scrabble. We haven&#8217;t found the time to play in ages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0690-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Scrabble\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0690-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0690.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today she was off work for a medical check-up, and I&#8217;ve stopped teaching at my Thursday school, on account of it being too far away &#8211; Bishops Stortford &#8211; to remain viable.<\/p>\n<p>So we got out the Scrabble. And here&#8217;s how the board looked at end of play.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0689-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scrabble\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0689-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0689-768x1028.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0689-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0689.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pleasingly full spread of tiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One thing I enjoy about our games is that, unlike the old-timers who once thrashed us at Scrabble Club we made the mistake of venturing into, we aren&#8217;t hell-bent on winning via as many two-letter combinations as are humanly possible. Certainly for me it&#8217;s a game that&#8217;s just about the fun of thinking of words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa and I love a game of Scrabble. We haven&#8217;t found the time to play in ages. Today she was off work for a medical check-up, and I&#8217;ve stopped teaching at my Thursday school, on account of it being too far away &#8211; Bishops Stortford &#8211; to remain viable. So we got out the Scrabble. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home: Scrabble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-9R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}