{"id":94,"date":"2004-10-04T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:53:07","slug":"scrabble-is-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/scrabble-is-a-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble is a Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched an interesting flash movie just now. I found a link to it in a post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenhead.com\">Screenhead,<\/a> the latest Nick Denton micropublishing vehicle. This post was about a newly launched web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidlit.com\">Vid Lit<\/a> which &#8220;offers a different kind of Flash, with the emphasis on storytelling, and images as more of an incidental device. Feels like This American Life, but with pictures. Entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidlit.com\/craziest\/craziest.html\">&#8216;Craziest&#8217;<\/a> by Liz Dubelman offers up the idea of the word game Scrabble as a religion. Like the Da Vinci Code, only mildly less insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After watching the flash video, I checked my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/registry.html\/102-2746395-9127309?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;id=2JZCT5IE8OBLS\">Amazon Wish List<\/a> and unfortunately, although I added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0142002267\/ref=wl_it_dp\/102-2746395-9127309?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;coliid=I4GS10243BVB&amp;v=glance&amp;colid=2JZCT5IE8OBLS\">Word Freak:Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players<\/a> a while ago, it is still on it. I really want to read it though so if you want to buy it for me, I&#8217;ll promise to write a book review.<\/p>\n<p>This post goes out to Jay, Keri, Eric, Michelle and Erik &#8211; scrabble nuts, every last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched an interesting flash movie just now. I found a link to it in a post at Screenhead, the latest Nick Denton micropublishing vehicle. This post was about a newly launched web site called Vid Lit which &#8220;offers a different kind of Flash, with the emphasis on storytelling, and images as more of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[258,360,563],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-games","tag-language","tag-scrabble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}