{"id":1474,"date":"2007-11-21T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/11\/21\/it-was-bound-to-happen-someday\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:56:07","slug":"it-was-bound-to-happen-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/11\/21\/it-was-bound-to-happen-someday\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was Bound to Happen One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost at Scrabble.<\/p>\n<p>Deano came over last night for what has become our Tuesday night ritual: Scrabble and dinner (then more Scrabble). Things started off well enough: I won the first game by about 37 points.<\/p>\n<p>But things took a turn for the worst in the second game with just his first word: &#8220;hoopers.&#8221; Apparently, a hooper is a person who makes baskets. Who knew? Anyway, not only did the &#8220;s&#8221; in hoopers connect to another 7-letter word, but &#8220;hoopers&#8221; also used all of his letters, resulting in a 50-point bonus. He may even have finagled a double word score in there, too because this one word gave him 79 points.<\/p>\n<p>For me, that wasn&#8217;t a good start to the game. In the end, he managed to beat me by 13 points. I was able to close the gap slightly, but just not enough to be victorious. Congratulations, Deano &#8211; you&#8217;ve ruined Scrabble night.<\/p>\n<p>I think our Tuesday night Scrabble ritual is over now. I shall never play again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost at Scrabble. Deano came over last night for what has become our Tuesday night ritual: Scrabble and dinner (then more Scrabble). Things started off well enough: I won the first game by about 37 points. But things took a turn for the worst in the second game with just his first word: &#8220;hoopers.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}