{"id":924,"date":"2022-01-18T00:56:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/?p=924"},"modified":"2022-01-18T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:56:59","slug":"meeting-17-january-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-17-january-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 17 January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">El Prez is in the lead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a balmy evening at <strong>Louise<\/strong>\u2019s place in Illawong overlooking the serene Georges River, <strong>Wayne <\/strong>convincingly won <em>Brisk Bizz<\/em> at our first meeting for 2022. He managed this spectacular victory despite having to interrupt his conversation with other players to roll the dice, then carry on the conversation while his neighbours decided what strategy should be used, moved his token,  paid his bills and delivered his income.  Perhaps I\u2019m a bit envious, speaking as a long term bankrupt!  The only other player to avoid serious  bankruptcy was <strong>Tara<\/strong>, and it shows on the score line.  Wayne&#8217;s final score was almost triple Tara\u2019s,  and Tara\u2019s was almost double Louise\u2019s.  <strong>Ross<\/strong>\u2019s initiation into Brisk Bizz was completely devoid of beginner\u2019s luck &#8211; he spent the entire game going in and out of bankruptcy court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Uno Flip<\/em> was savage wth the &#8220;keep picking up cards till you can&#8217;t hold them any longer&#8221; rule, and strangely the result rankings were split along gender lines, girls in the placings, boys the also-rans.  <strong>Louise<\/strong>, <strong>Genelle<\/strong>, <strong>Tara <\/strong>in that order.  Once again <strong>Ross<\/strong> was devoid of beginner&#8217;s luck, and along with Rob scored WHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had two absentees, <strong>Nicole<\/strong> was under deadline pressure at work, and <strong>Steve<\/strong> was being cautious about Covid due to his dealings with multiple residents in aged care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Prez is in the lead On a balmy evening at Louise\u2019s place in Illawong overlooking the serene Georges River, Wayne convincingly won Brisk Bizz at our first meeting for 2022. He managed this spectacular victory despite having to interrupt his conversation with other players to roll the dice, then carry on the conversation while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-17-january-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting 17 January 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}