{"id":1763,"date":"2023-02-24T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:31:36","slug":"social-play-sunday-february-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Social Play &#8211; Sunday, February 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you a backgammon beginner?&nbsp;If you are new to the game or tournaments in general, we have a \u201csocial play\u201d event for you.&nbsp;12 or 13 players attended our social event on January 29. Some players stayed a short time (an hour or less), a few players stayed 2-3 hours, and four players stayed about 5 hours.  We&#8217;re going to try it again on <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Sunday, February 26 at 1:00 pm<\/strong><\/span>. Although the event is aimed at new players and beginners, more experienced players are also welcome to play\/join (and did so on January 29). We will also likely have another social play event the first weekend of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those interested, at the January 29 event after 2 hours of casual play we organized a mini-tournament (4 players, single-elimination). Four players joined the mini-tournament while the remaining players (four other players) happily continued their casual\/social play with each other. I expect that we&#8217;ll try something similar on February 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a backgammon beginner?&nbsp;If you are new to the game or tournaments in general, we have a \u201csocial play\u201d event for you.&nbsp;12 or 13 players attended our social event on January 29. Some players stayed a short time (an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1763\">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\/1763"}],"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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}