{"id":116162,"date":"2022-06-25T20:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116162"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:31:04","slug":"board-games-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/board-games-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Games (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s on<br \/>\nA Friday night, after a long work week<br \/>\nOr a Saturday afternoon, post a heavy brunch<br \/>\nOr sometimes, a really free weekday evening<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s with<br \/>\nThe same old gang that always shows up<br \/>\nOr a friend that I haven\u2019t seen in a while<br \/>\nOr just me and mine on a date night <\/p>\n<p>All it takes is<br \/>\nA few text messages<br \/>\nA few drinks and snacks<br \/>\nSome great background music<br \/>\nAnd of course, the library of games <\/p>\n<p>Somedays, we go back to the time of war<br \/>\nStrategizing quickly on a chessboard<br \/>\nOr picking up Risk, building fleets and launching attacks <\/p>\n<p>Somedays, it\u2019s about finding the enemy<br \/>\nThe werewolf, Mordred, or Mafia lurking among us <\/p>\n<p>Somedays, it\u2019s all of us against a common enemy<br \/>\nPreventing a global pandemic or zombies from relentless conquest<\/p>\n<p>And somedays it\u2019s just pure card games<br \/>\nProbability, partnerships, sequences, and a fair bit of luck <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s collegial, sometimes more heated<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s never anything a second game cannot fix<br \/>\nSo I wait till the next time the opportunity presents<br \/>\nAnd I know I\u2019ll be the first to jump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s on A Friday night, after a long work week Or a Saturday afternoon, post a heavy brunch Or sometimes, a really free weekday evening Whether it\u2019s with The same old gang that always shows up Or a friend that I haven\u2019t seen in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116169,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116162\/revisions\/116169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}