{"id":6866,"date":"2007-12-14T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/field-of-bingos\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T12:40:38","slug":"field-of-bingos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/field-of-bingos\/","title":{"rendered":"Field of Bingos"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p>Believe it or not, I&#8217;ve been playing Scrabulous less frequently in recent weeks.  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