{"id":1288,"date":"2011-10-23T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2011-10-23T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:37:49","slug":"serious-scrabble-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/serious-scrabble-ing\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Scrabble-ing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/G-Scrabble-tile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/G-Scrabble-tile.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"G Scrabble tile\" width=\"85\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1289\" \/><\/a>How seriously do you take Scrabble games? Think of them as a fun pastime that also may improve your vocabulary?<\/p>\n<p>Well, however seriously you treat your home Scrabble games, competitors at the World Scrabble Championships are much more serious than you. A Thai player this week demanded his opponent be strip searched to try and find a tile that went missing during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for his English counterpart, the referee did not grant this request. But the mystery remains \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/g-for-guilty-lost-letter-spells-trouble-at-world-scrabble-contest-2371616.html \">what happened to the \u2018G\u2019<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How seriously do you take Scrabble games? Think of them as a fun pastime that also may improve your vocabulary? Well, however seriously you treat your home Scrabble games, competitors at the World Scrabble Championships are much more serious than you. A Thai player this week demanded his opponent be strip searched to try and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44],"tags":[802,682,1065,1017,44],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-words","tag-language-games","tag-scrabble","tag-scrabble-world-championships","tag-word-games","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}