{"id":116604,"date":"2022-06-25T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116604"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:36:52","slug":"the-dulling-of-the-card-sharps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-dulling-of-the-card-sharps\/","title":{"rendered":"The dulling of the card sharps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wednesday night crowd<br \/>\naround the big table<br \/>\ncenter of the brewery beer hall<br \/>\nwas middle-aged men<br \/>\nboisterously playing cards<br \/>\ntrash-talking<br \/>\nhowling with delight at<br \/>\nwinning hands<br \/>\nor someone missing a bet, bid<br \/>\nthe beer, the game<br \/>\nwas all flowing<br \/>\nwe were living<br \/>\nsemi-vicariously<br \/>\ntwo-tables away<\/p>\n<p>As we got up to leave<br \/>\nI passed the big table just as a<br \/>\nhand was being<br \/>\nclosed out<br \/>\nanother dealt<br \/>\ncurious as to what variant<br \/>\nfive-card<br \/>\nseven-card<br \/>\nTexas hold-on\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>My companion and I<br \/>\ndid a double take at the cards<br \/>\nbeing dealt<br \/>\nthis was no stud game<br \/>\nno croupier riding herd on this<br \/>\nrousing game of<br \/>\nPoint Salad<br \/>\nnoted, per the game website<br \/>\nas a game where players<br \/>\n\u2018Collect groupings of fruits<br \/>\nand vegetables \u2013 with<br \/>\nloads of ways<br \/>\nto score points\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Head-scratching, we left<br \/>\npondering<br \/>\nwhat we had seen<br \/>\nconcluding<br \/>\nwith some logic that<br \/>\nconsidering the demographic<br \/>\nits not a huge step<br \/>\nfrom discussing dietary<br \/>\nroughage<br \/>\nto a little rough-and-tumble<br \/>\ngambling with it. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wednesday night crowd around the big table center of the brewery beer hall was middle-aged men boisterously playing cards trash-talking howling with delight at winning hands or someone missing a bet, bid the beer, the game was all flowing we were living semi-vicariously two-tables&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5292,5301,5329,5330],"class_list":["post-116604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour12","tag-2022hour12gatheringprompt","tag-2022-prompt-12","tag-gathering-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116604","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116621,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116604\/revisions\/116621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}