{"id":249,"date":"2007-12-27T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-12-27T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T09:15:22","slug":"word-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/12\/27\/word-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrabulous.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"2007.12.26\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/2007.12.26.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Our goal over this year&#8217;s holiday season was to accomplish absolutely nothing &#8211; which was exactly what we did over the past 4 days in New York. Much of our time was spent reliving the joy of sci-fi novels like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enders-Game-Ender-Book-1\/dp\/0812550706\">Ender&#8217;s Game<\/a> and Asimov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Foundation-Novels-Isaac-Asimov\/dp\/0553293354\">Foundation<\/a> series. We also flexed the language portion of our brain muscles with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/ds\">DS<\/a> games like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/ds\/puzzle\/thenewyorktimescrosswords\/index.html\">NY Times Crossword<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/ds\/puzzle\/wordjong\/index.html\">WordJong<\/a> (it&#8217;s better than it sounds), some high-speed scribbling action with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/default.cfm?page=browse&amp;product_id=9619\">Boggle<\/a> at my cousin&#8217;s house, and the increasingly addictive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/application.php?id=3052170175\">Scrabulous<\/a> app on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>. Of course, we did not neglect to flex our stomach muscles as well. We gobbled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeshanghairestaurants.com\/\">Joe Shanghai&#8217;s<\/a> famous soup dumplings, tender BBQ beef tongues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyu-kaku.com\/\">Gyu-Kaku<\/a>, and a somewhat underwhelming luncheon tasting menu at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbouley.com\/\">Bouley<\/a>. To my dismay, I was struck again with another cold on our return to Boston. I guess I&#8217;ll just have to veg out for a few more days before we ring in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our goal over this year&#8217;s holiday season was to accomplish absolutely nothing &#8211; which was exactly what we did over the past 4 days in New York. Much of our time was spent reliving the joy of sci-fi novels like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/12\/27\/word-plays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}