{"id":1952,"date":"2010-02-06T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:03:02","slug":"learning-to-scrabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Scrabble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I have found a fun Scrabble game to play ony iPhone, called Words with Friends (and it&#8217;s free!). One fun advantage is that you can essentially place &#8220;try&#8221; various combinations of letters, click &#8216;submit&#8217;, and you might find yourself lucky enough to have created an actual word that you&#8217;ve never heard of.  For example, &#8220;readorns&#8221;, &#8220;baud&#8221; and &#8220;beefy&#8221;. Can you believe &#8220;beefy&#8221; is actually a word?!?<\/p>\n<p>Brian tweeted this photo of Josiah, saying he was teaching him to play Words with Friends. Just what we need&#8230; a 3-year old learning real-but-not-normal words. Before I know it, he&#8217;ll be beating me at Scrabble!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/l_1200_874_003E4FB2-1DE2-4FF7-B806-4848BD5A5E34.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/l_1200_874_003E4FB2-1DE2-4FF7-B806-4848BD5A5E34.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I have found a fun Scrabble game to play ony iPhone, called Words with Friends (and it&#8217;s free!). One fun advantage is that you can essentially place &#8220;try&#8221; various combinations of letters, click &#8216;submit&#8217;, and you might find yourself lucky enough to have created an actual word that you&#8217;ve never heard of. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-grind","tag-josiah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}