{"id":3179,"date":"2010-05-21T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2016-11-28T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T02:28:10","slug":"risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"risk\"<\/p>\n

Last night I spent a picture-perfect evening on the patio with my two boys playing a somewhat civil game of RISK\u00ae.<\/strong> I realize that the serious gamer would consider RISK\u00ae to be ‘Ameri-trash’ because of its dependency on dice to settle a player’s fate but all things considered, the aptly-named Parker Brothers classic teaches simple strategy and consequence.<\/p>\n

My oldest is so competitive when it comes to games. Any time I was on a lucky roll he would proclaim the game ‘stupid’ and accuse me of picking on him. No matter how many times I tried to explain to him that it takes no particular skill to throw sixes, he was convinced that it wasn’t luck. How quickly his attitude changed when I was the one begging for mercy. Once he and his brother allied with one another they pretty much ‘owned me’. It seemed that no matter how much mojo I threw on those dice I could do nothing but roll ‘cap gun’ ones to their ‘cannon’ fives and sixes. Stupid game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I spent a picture-perfect evening on the patio with my two boys playing a somewhat civil game of RISK\u00ae. I realize that the serious gamer would consider RISK\u00ae to be ‘Ameri-trash’ because of its dependency on dice to settle a player’s fate but all things considered, the aptly-named Parker Brothers classic teaches simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[698],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-recreation","tag-risk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-risk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}