{"id":1803,"date":"2011-01-09T23:27:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/01\/09\/headline-wife-finds-use-for-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-01-09T23:27:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T07:27:19","slug":"headline-wife-finds-use-for-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/01\/09\/headline-wife-finds-use-for-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline: wife finds use for &lsquo;blog&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was once at a meeting with Dr. Bob III where I introduced myself this way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Don\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a blogger\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was due to Dr. Bob\u2019s noted antipathy for blogs.<\/p>\n<p>My wife has typically shared his view and can\u2019t imagine what I find so compelling about my blog. Until today! She found a use for \u2018blog\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>She scored 38 points with it AGAINST ME in Scrabble tonight! The Nerve!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Scrabble2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Scrabble2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Scrabble2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Scrabble2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still won, though\u2026 I got most of the good letters, and we really boxed ourselves in, couldn\u2019t get into the upper left quadrant at all.<\/p>\n<p>For those scoring at home, she stuck blog on underneath OR to make ORB, the DO came later.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great way to spend a Sunday evening. My wife made a tremendous effort with mostly vowels the whole night. She tends to be a better positional player than me, I\u2019m always looking for the big plays, especially the seven letter words.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"don_sig2\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/don_sig22.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was once at a meeting with Dr. Bob III where I introduced myself this way: \u201cMy name is Don\u2026 \u201cI am a blogger\u2026\u201d This was due to Dr. Bob\u2019s noted antipathy for blogs. My wife has typically shared his view and can\u2019t imagine what I find so compelling about my blog. Until today! She [&hellip;]<\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-t5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}