{"id":1027,"date":"2012-01-16T01:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2012-01-05T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:28:26","slug":"bananagrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/01\/bananagrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananagrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I learn that I need to learn more words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the holiday season I spent time with relatives in Louisiana. One evening, some of the relatives were playing a word game: <a href=\"http:\/\/bananagrams.com\/\">Bananagrams<\/a>. It seems this is a famous game, especially on Facebook or something.<\/p>\n<p>I had never played the game and wasn&#8217;t interested in playing it that night. Somehow, someone convinced me to sit and play. This would be easy. I am the writer of books and such.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the course of the games, I would look in the dictionary to see if some of the words that people spelled were actually words. (Someone, who will remain nameless, was trying to spell the letter &#8220;t&#8221; as a word.) Reading through a few pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webster%27s_Dictionary#Merriam-Webster.27s_Collegiate_Dictionary\">Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Collegiate Dictionary<\/a> surprised me. It contained many words that I didn&#8217;t recognize.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes. I learned that I had a lot of words to learn. This year, I will read those writer&#8217;s blog posts about words and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I learn that I need to learn more words. Over the holiday season I spent time with relatives in Louisiana. One evening, some of the relatives were playing a word game: Bananagrams. It seems this is a famous game, especially on Facebook or something. I had never played the game and wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,20,5],"tags":[207,142,128],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-learning","category-writing","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}