{"id":533,"date":"2010-04-08T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:43:11","slug":"wordscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2010\/04\/08\/533\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><label id=\"pBlogSubject_532434218\">Wordscraper<\/label><br \/>\nCurrent mood:\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/x.myspacecdn.com\/images\/blog\/moods\/iBrads\/cooky.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0cooky\/wacky<br \/>\n<strong>Category:<\/strong> Games<\/div>\n<p><!--  blog body  --><\/p>\n<div id=\"pBlogBody_532434218\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vYmxvZ3MubXlzcGFjZS5jb20vTW9kdWxlcy9Db21tb24vUGFnZXMv\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images02\/136\/l_d1f3b801c6184cc4bee8998433ae9915.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>I&#8217;ve fallen in love. Thanks to my awesome pal Jackie Kallen, the First Lady of Boxing, I&#8217;ve discovered the awesome joys of Wordscraper, a Scrabble-style game played on Facebook. I had no idea the game existed but it&#8217;s one of the many applications available on the social networking site and it has saved my life.<\/div>\n<div>I used to be one of those socially-awkward people who punished friends and family members for a game of ScrabbIe. Yes, my nieces and nephews run when they see me searching for them with my board in hand. I have a Travel Scrabble and have hit up strangers on planes who feign sleep after several rounds.<\/div>\n<div>Pikers!<\/div>\n<div>I lived in eternal frustration because I love word games and I love Wordscraper. You can play with one person or more and I currently have several games going.<\/div>\n<div>Jackie and our mutual friend, author Norma Zager play, Scrabble and eat cheap Chinese food at Fu&#8217;s Palace&#8230;not as often as we&#8217;d like, but the beauty of Wordscraper is that you play if and when you feel like it. I happen to think Chinese food goes great with the game, but that&#8217;s just me.<\/div>\n<div>You can eat, drink, do anything you want when you play Wordscraper. You can play naked!<\/div>\n<div>Just click the application link and check if it&#8217;s your turn. You make your move and leave it to your opponent to make their move.<\/div>\n<div>Jackie and I are on our second game and unlike Scrabble, which requires your immediate attention, the beauty of this game is that you make your move and go about your day&#8230;and still get to keep what Hercule Poirot called &#8220;the little grey cells&#8221; active.<\/div>\n<div>Studies show that playing word games keeps your mind young and things like Alzheimer&#8217;s far away. I currently have seven games going, including one with author Serena Yates and others with my pals Caroline, Sandra, Cynthia and Silver.<\/div>\n<div>Oops. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have outed them all like this?<\/div>\n<div>Anyway, I have no idea who created this game or how long it&#8217;s been on Facebook but it&#8217;s one of my healthiest obsessions (my other most lethal one being cupcakes).<\/div>\n<div>So if you find yourself at a loose end and wanting to join the e revolution of mind and word games, check out Wordscraper. Hit me up, I challenge you and welcome you to the fun side of social networking. Your secret fetish will be safe with me.<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s your move,<\/div>\n<div>\nA.J.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--  blogger's current book\/movie\/music\/games  --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ikena-Tia-Carrere-Daniel-Ho\/dp\/B001FOI73C%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJWJL7Z4P3SPKTNOA%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001FOI73C\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61XTJYaARrL._SL75_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Currently\u00a0listening:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ikena-Tia-Carrere-Daniel-Ho\/dp\/B001FOI73C%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJWJL7Z4P3SPKTNOA%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001FOI73C\"><strong>&#8216;Ikena<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy\u00a0Tia Carrere &amp; Daniel Ho<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wordscraper Current mood:\u00a0\u00a0cooky\/wacky Category: Games \u00a0 I&#8217;ve fallen in love. Thanks to my awesome pal Jackie Kallen, the First Lady of Boxing, I&#8217;ve discovered the awesome joys of Wordscraper, a Scrabble-style game played on Facebook. I had no idea the game existed but it&#8217;s one of the many applications available on the social networking site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,60,57,58,59],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-j-llewellyn","tag-scrabble","tag-serena-yates","tag-word-games","tag-wordscraper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}