{"id":38795260,"date":"2005-11-26T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/11\/risk.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:37:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:37:26","slug":"200511risk-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/11\/26\/200511risk-html\/","title":{"rendered":"RISK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\">\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpstaticflick_eryje\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/cmcimport.files.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/media_httpstaticflick_eryje-scaled500.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the front end of our long Thanksgiving weekend, I was determined not to let it all be lost to mind-numbing hours of the Cartoon Network, or the isolation of our laptops.  And so I found and dusted off one off my old favorite board games, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Risk_%28game%29\">RISK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>My older brother Sean really enjoyed this game, and I remember him teaching me to play on the set we had with armies made of small wooden blocks of different colors and shapes.  It&#8217;s a great mix of strategy and luck.  My current set dates to my college days, where many a battle was fought.  But it&#8217;s been a real long time since my generalship has been tested on the RISK board.<\/p>\n<p \/>Colleen and Will were quick to take up my challenge to fight over the world.  We&#8217;ve played two games so far this weekend.  I won the first, but was the first to go in the second, and I&#8217;m typing this now as they engage in the final battle.  There&#8217;s a special sort of fatherly pride to hear my daughter shout, &#8220;I&#8217;m coming into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irkutsk\">Irkutsk<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamchatka\">Kamchatka<\/a> with three!&#8221;.  And she did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the front end of our long Thanksgiving weekend, I was determined not to let it all be lost to mind-numbing hours of the Cartoon Network, or the isolation of our laptops. And so I found and dusted off one off my old favorite board games, RISK. M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-guidetolife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMq0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354496,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795260\/revisions\/173354496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}