{"id":1116,"date":"2018-06-22T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-06-22T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T00:47:27","slug":"backgammon-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Backgammon Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a backgammon beginner?  If you are new to the game or tournaments in general, we have an event for you!  This summer I&#8217;m planning on hosting a few beginner-level events.  There is no cost to join these events.  The first such event will be <strong>Tuesday, June 26 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm<\/strong>.  Feel free to stop by anytime you want during this 3-hour window; you don&#8217;t have to arrive at 6:00 pm or leave at 9:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of these events will include casual play, basic strategy discussions, informal lessons, etc.  I&#8217;ll also discuss general backgammon rules and tournament rules, etc. if there&#8217;s interest.<\/p>\n<p>Look for a &#8220;Columbus Backgammon Club&#8221; sign on one of the tables.<\/p>\n<p>Our normal playing location is at the Food Court at Polaris Mall near the Upper Level parking lot entrance near Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods\/Field &#038; Stream.  We&#8217;re in the corner near the doors connecting the food court to the parking lot.  See the &#8220;Our Home&#8221; section on the right sidebar of this webpage for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a backgammon beginner? If you are new to the game or tournaments in general, we have an event for you! This summer I&#8217;m planning on hosting a few beginner-level events. There is no cost to join these events. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1116\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}