{"id":767,"date":"2008-12-07T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregandjennifer.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2008-12-07T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:49:31","slug":"scrabble-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregandjennifer.com\/scrabble-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregandjennifer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p-640-480-2b36f6a1-9274-47ff-a7ff-7c15913f205a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/thecatholicsnextdoor.newevangelizers.com\/files\/2011\/12\/p-640-480-2b36f6a1-9274-47ff-a7ff-7c15913f205a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Apparently, Scrabble Season began today.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we played what felt like a zillion games around Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I now have an association between Scrabble and Italian olives.  We had a bunch of them last year and while we\u2019d play, we\u2019d munch on olives.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why we did, but now a year later as we play our first game of Scrabble Season, I have an insatiable craving for olives.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder which one of us will give in and actually go to the store to get a batch of olives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregandjennifer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p-640-480-5a5f351c-9045-49ce-9e77-5115aef3b5a1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/thecatholicsnextdoor.newevangelizers.com\/files\/2011\/12\/p-640-480-5a5f351c-9045-49ce-9e77-5115aef3b5a1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>As it looks now, with the letters I have at the start of the game, this could be the beginning of a Scrabble Season that brings Jennifer&#8217;s revenge from last year.<\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE* We&#8217;re well into the game now, and I think it&#8217;s certain I&#8217;ll be losing.\u00a0 Throughout the entire game, I&#8217;ve had 1 consonant and 6 vowels.\u00a0 Just now, I sealed my defeat by drawing a 7th vowel.<\/p>\n<p>I passed my turn to get a new rack of letters.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll take a miracle to catch up since I&#8217;m running 40 points behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Scrabble Season began today. 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I have no idea why we did, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1193],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scrabble Season - Greg and Jennifer Willits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Podcasting since 2005 &amp; Married 10 years longer than that. 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