{"id":48107,"date":"2014-11-14T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/gaming-for-eternity.html"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:18:43","slug":"gaming-for-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/gaming-for-eternity.html","title":{"rendered":"Gaming for Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is &#8230; very cool. Applause to the family of Mr Lind.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Geeks are Sexy<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since Paul G. Lind of Portland, Oregon, loved to play Scrabble so much, his family decided to have this Scrabble-themed tombstone made just for him when he died in 2005. Last year, after the tombstone got vandalized, local Scrabble players held a&hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2014\/11\/14\/this-geek-is-going-to-scrabble-heaven-in-the-afterlife-pic\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/uO-3YJC4dBlDXE95ccoreWN3HK4ZWncf1tBcOFkHZwxjHzIp5V4umKj1LHBbrjbtHIO56k84OFaDUlAi1zAoUmwQLA_2LMMgIxeRBMgyG8phRhIP-OIxcIl4G3hQcEayXw4=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2014\/11\/14\/this-geek-is-going-to-scrabble-heaven-in-the-afterlife-pic\/'>This Geek is Going to Scrabble Heaven in the Afterlife [Pic]<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSince Paul G. Lind of Portland, Oregon, loved to play Scrabble so much, his family decided to have this Scrabble-themed tombstone made just for him when he\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3Mf92Cekj4F'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is &#8230; very cool. Applause to the family of Mr Lind. Originally shared by +Geeks are Sexy: Since Paul G. Lind of Portland, Oregon, loved to play Scrabble so much, his family decided to have this Scrabble-themed tombstone made just for him when he died in 2005. Last year, after the tombstone got vandalized, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/gaming-for-eternity.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaming for Eternity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/cheating-at-scrabble.html","url_meta":{"origin":48107,"position":0},"title":"Cheating at Scrabble","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Aug-12 9:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will confess that, when playing Scrabble (and, um, well, uh, most board games), I tend to be, well, um, competitive.But cheating? \u00a0Crikey, no. 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