{"id":8297,"date":"2018-09-25T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/2018\/09\/25\/i-really-used-to-like-this-game\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:35:18","slug":"i-really-used-to-like-this-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/09\/25\/i-really-used-to-like-this-game\/","title":{"rendered":"I Really Used To Like This Game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to love playing Scrabble. I mean, I really enjoyed it&#8230;a whole lot! You know what, it&#8217;s not been too fun lately. Maybe it has to do with the letters tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"wp-image-8295 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?resize=960%2C720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5155.jpg?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s because my children have grown up and winning isn&#8217;t as easy as it used to be. ?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"wp-image-8296 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?resize=960%2C1280&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_5157.jpg?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what my son claimed when I told him his two younger sisters were beating me at &#8220;my own game&#8221; lately.<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear&#8230;children do grow up, don&#8217;t they? If your children are still small, hold them, enjoy them, and beat them at Scrabble ?  while you can! They&#8217;ll be grown before you know it!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u202d\u202dPsalms\u202c \u202d128:3\u202c \u202d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to love playing Scrabble. I mean, I really enjoyed it&#8230;a whole lot! You know what, it&#8217;s not been too fun lately. Maybe it has to do with the letters tonight&#8230; Or maybe it&#8217;s because my children have grown up and winning isn&#8217;t as easy as it used to be. ? That&#8217;s what my son claimed when I told him his two younger sisters were beating me at &#8220;my own game&#8221; lately. Oh dear&#8230;children do grow up, don&#8217;t they? If your children are still small, hold them, enjoy them, and beat them at Scrabble ? while you can! They&#8217;ll be grown before you know it! \u201cThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.\u201d \u202d\u202dPsalms\u202c \u202d128:3\u202c \u202d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,13,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-happenings","category-parenting-children","category-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-29P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}