{"id":265,"date":"2016-03-05T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-03-05T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T20:13:19","slug":"83-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"83. Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday nights, I usually go to a group that plays Eurogames.\u00a0 So much fun!<\/p>\n<p>Last night I\u00a0only played two &#8212; an old favorite, Dominion, and a new really interesting game called Evolution.\u00a0 But week after week, I get to play a wide variety of games with people who are really good at it and enjoy it as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>After my youngest went off to college, it dawned on me that I&#8217;d always counted on family to have people to play games with.\u00a0 And suddenly, there was no one at all in my home but me!<\/p>\n<p>After some persuading, my co-worker got me going to a Saturday afternoon group, and eventually I was invited to the Friday night group.\u00a0 I now have another group that often plays Dominion on Sundays, and usually play a game with that same co-worker during our dinner break on Thursdays &#8212; so I have lots of opportunities to play games in my life.<\/p>\n<p>And normally, when I drive home at night after gaming, I can&#8217;t help but think how happy that makes me.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what it is about me that so much likes playing games, but I definitely do.\u00a0 And I get to have that in my life!\u00a0 I am blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday nights, I usually go to a group that plays Eurogames.\u00a0 So much fun! Last night I\u00a0only played two &#8212; an old favorite, Dominion, and a new really interesting game called Evolution.\u00a0 But week after week, I get to play a wide variety of games with people who are really good at it and enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}