{"id":9147,"date":"2011-03-15T00:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T05:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2011-03-15T00:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T05:41:33","slug":"close-only-counts-in-horseshoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/close-only-counts-in-horseshoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Close only counts in horseshoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9148\" title=\"IMG_0053\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?resize=500%2C500 500w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?resize=400%2C400 400w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg?w=612 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I came in second at poker at the Silly Goose tonight. Unfortunately that did me no good whatsoever, as only first place gets the weekly prize! So I drank a bunch of PBR and did a shot someone bought for no return on investment at all.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that&#8217;s not entirely true. I earned 5 points toward Poker Jon&#8217;s league standings. Problem is, I&#8217;ve played so much drunk poker at the Goose and the other locations that it really won&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>At least I eliminated Brick (pictured here) tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Damn Brick is photogenic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came in second at poker at the Silly Goose tonight. Unfortunately that did me no good whatsoever, as only first place gets the weekly prize! So I drank a bunch of PBR and did a shot someone bought for no return on investment at all. Actually, that&#8217;s not entirely true. I earned 5 points &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/close-only-counts-in-horseshoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Close only counts in horseshoes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->