Man, are we only on the 11th letter? Not even at the MIDPOINT for this krazy exercise? Who are we kidding, here?<\/p>\n
What do you mean, "Get to the point!" What makes you think I HAVE a point?<\/p>\n
Oh, the word, you mean. Get to the word. Today's word. For K.<\/p>\n
Oh-Kay then.<\/p>\n
Um.<\/p>\n
K is for…. <\/p>\n
hmmm. Let's see.<\/p>\n
Those of you who have been paying attention – thanks mom! – know that I've been hitting a few themes. Humor is an ever-present theme here, because it's the best coping mechanism we have for living in a universe that makes no sense. Philosophical meanders have also been a theme. And finally themes about me and my quirks have been a theme – humor and and philosophical meanders can be seem as a subset of that theme, since I am given to both, but we're trying to keep this amusing, educational and fascinating so we'll pretend it's three themes instead of just one, okay? <\/p>\n
Good. Glad we are in agreement. <\/p>\n
So. Back to K. We'll go to the theme of "stuff about me".<\/p>\n
K is for Kriegspiel<\/p>\n
kriegspiel (KREEG-speel) noun<\/p>\n
1. A game in which miniature characters and blocks represent armies,
ships, etc. as they move around on a drawing of a battlefield,
used to simulate war and teach military tactics.<\/p>\n
2. A form of chess where players see only their own pieces and the
opponent's moves are told to them by another person who keeps track
of all the pieces on a third board.<\/p>\n
Basically, the german word for Wargame. And given that I am an avid wargamer – don't ask Rida how many games I play, because she might start gnashing her teeth, and then hit me – I decided it was an excellent word for K.<\/p>\n
Beats the hell out of kowtow, too.<\/p>\n
–Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man, are we only on the 11th letter? Not even at the MIDPOINT for this krazy exercise? Who are we kidding, here?<\/p>\n
What do you mean, "Get to the point!" What makes you think I HAVE a point?<\/p>\n
Oh, the word, you mean. Get to the word. Today's word. For K.<\/p>\n
Oh-Kay then.<\/p>\n
Um.<\/p>\n
K is for…. <\/p>\n
hmmm. Let's see.<\/p>\n
Those of you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}