{"id":2629,"date":"2007-07-22T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2007-07-22T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:37:00","slug":"2629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">How is that I never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Checkers#Invented_variants\">suicide checkers<\/a> before now? I actually find it a lot more fun than the regular version. If I was at all familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mis%C3%A8re\"><i>misere games<\/i><\/a> as a concept, it wasn&#8217;t anything I could have put a name to.<\/p>\n<p>My computer has a bunch of Internet games, including checkers, which are hosted through MSN. There&#8217;s a pre-set chat there &#8212; things like &#8220;Good luck,&#8221; &#8220;yes,&#8221; and &#8220;no&#8221; &#8212; so there&#8217;s no way to tell anyone you&#8217;re playing not to win, but to lose. They may just think you&#8217;re a bad player. Which is what I thought when I first started playing somebody yesterday. It took me at least one game to catch on. But then I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily MSN&#8217;s game website offers the variant, so everybody knows going in what the object of the game is. It can be tough to find players, though.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is that I never heard of suicide checkers before now? I actually find it a lot more fun than the regular version. If I was at all familiar with misere games as a concept, it wasn&#8217;t anything I could have put a name to. My computer has a bunch of Internet games, including checkers, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2629\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}