{"id":1127,"date":"2008-06-17T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T20:16:18","slug":"bridge_06172008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Bridge 06\/17\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IPHONE_0253.jpg\" alt=\"bridge hand\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWe played bridge again.  This time, I played 4 out of the 5 hands.  Woot!  Sometimes I was wild and crazy.  Sometimes my partner (Nick) was wild and crazy.  We had one amusing moment.  The dummy has AQJxx in diamonds and I have matching low diamonds.  I tried finessing my Queen.  I led a low diamond.  Wayne ducked it.  The dummy played a Queen and John ducked it as well.  I knew where the King lay.  I transferred control back to my hand again and led another low diamond.  Finally, after the third diamond play goes around and my dummy&#8217;s Ace is still sitting on the table, Wayne gets frustrated and throws his King down.  We all had a good laugh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the hand above, I went a little crazy and overbid four hearts.  How often do you get a hand containing seven hearts and void in one suit?  My partner made it easy by showing a strong supporting hand.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-Bridge20080617.jpg\" alt=\"bridge score\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nStill don&#8217;t know about the score keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We played bridge again. This time, I played 4 out of the 5 hands. Woot! Sometimes I was wild and crazy. Sometimes my partner (Nick) was wild and crazy. We had one amusing moment. The dummy has AQJxx in diamonds and I have matching low diamonds. I tried finessing my Queen. I led a low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}