{"id":29,"date":"2008-10-18T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickihamilton.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-10-18T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T01:14:15","slug":"how-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/2008\/10\/18\/how-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of games that I like to play. I&#8217;m a very competitive person by nature. I especially like one-on-one games where you don&#8217;t depend on anyone but yourself and you can get into the head of your opponent. Like Chess or Mastermind. I don&#8217;t like the games where cheating is rewarded, like Cribbage or Dominoes.<\/p>\n<p>When I play, I like to win on my own strengths. Sure, sometimes I win because my opponent has made a mistake, is incompetent, or even had a run of bad luck. But those wins are not as satisfying to me as the ones where I truly play my best game and win on my superior strategy and game skills.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the candidates felt that way about their campaigns. I&#8217;m about sick of the attacks on each other. That type of speech does not impress me at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of games that I like to play. I&#8217;m a very competitive person by nature. I especially like one-on-one games where you don&#8217;t depend on anyone but yourself and you can get into the head of your opponent. Like Chess or Mastermind. I don&#8217;t like the games where cheating is rewarded, like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/2008\/10\/18\/how-to-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Win&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}