{"id":1904,"date":"2011-09-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2011-09-27T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"war-whats-it-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"War- What’s it Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you what: spittle-flecked rages and ear drum shattering cries of anguish when it seems like forever since one kid or the other has won a hand. Not so subtle attempts at cheating by trying to substitute the next card in the stack for the current because the kid took a peak and knows they’re about to lose another hand. Long, wailing laments about how it isn’t fair that they haven’t won a ‘war’ in “forever.” Longer, louder wailing laments when they haven’t won a game in “forever” and it should be “their turn” to win. Accusations of cheating, bending of the rules by pulling a clump of cards off and then “just happening” to pick the highest one out.<\/p>\n

It’s also good for early bed times, under the right conditions.<\/p>\n

In short, it’s good for building character,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you what: spittle-flecked rages and ear drum shattering cries of anguish when it seems like forever since one kid or the other has won a hand. Not so subtle attempts at cheating by trying to substitute the next card in the stack for the current because the kid took a peak and knows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}