{"id":739,"date":"2006-02-23T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/scrabble_must_be_stopped_before_its_too_late.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T00:05:46","slug":"scrabble_must_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/scrabble_must_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble Must Be Stopped Before It&#8217;s Too Late!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queens Gazette&#8217;s Austin H. Armistead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/news\/2006\/0222\/features\/021.html\">doesn&#8217;t mind a little hyperbole every once in a while<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scrabble, a board game that combines the best features of crossword puzzles and anagrams, was invented by Alfred M. Butts, a Jackson Heights resident. The game was first played at then Community Methodist Church at 35th Avenue and 81st Street <strong>and went on to conquer the world<\/strong>.<\/em> [Emph. added because who can argue with that?]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yak.net\/kablooey\/scrabble\/2letterwords.html\">San Jose Scrabble(r) Club Two-Letter Words List<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queens Gazette&#8217;s Austin H. Armistead doesn&#8217;t mind a little hyperbole every once in a while: Scrabble, a board game that combines the best features of crossword puzzles and anagrams, was invented by Alfred M. Butts, a Jackson Heights resident. The game was first played at then Community Methodist Church at 35th Avenue and 81st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}