{"id":2963,"date":"2010-09-22T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2010-09-22T23:14:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:14:37","slug":"ipad-app-of-the-week-words-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"iPad App of the Week:  Words With Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2964\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordwithfriends.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2964\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2964\" title=\"wordwithfriends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordwithfriends.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordwithfriends.png 768w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordwithfriends-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich actually beat me in a close game by using the word &#39;win&#39;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I try very hard not to be one of those iPhone people.\u00a0 You know the type that obsessively takes it out and uses it for Facebook, Twitter or text messaging in public.\u00a0 I like those things and use those functions too but I know it drives me nuts if I&#8217;m talking to someone and their eyes glaze over as soon as they get an alert on their phone and they have to check it straight away.\u00a0 I do pretty good at not being one of <em>those<\/em> people.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, most of my social graces went out the window when a friend got me onto <em>Words With Friends<\/em>.\u00a0 The concept is simple:\u00a0 its <em>Scrabble<\/em> played over an iPhone or iPad.\u00a0 Yet there is something strangely compulsive about it that I can&#8217;t quite explain.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even play regular <em>Scrabble<\/em>.\u00a0 But its made me become one of <em>those<\/em> people.\u00a0 Mid-conversation, if the iPhone or iPad has a push alert telling me its my turn, then I feel like I have to check my game.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get in on the fun, it costs a measly $4 bucks on iPhone (or you can get a free version with ads).\u00a0 It&#8217;s also $4 if you want it on the iPad.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re up for a game, my username is <strong>edotherocket.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try very hard not to be one of those iPhone people.\u00a0 You know the type that obsessively takes it out and uses it for Facebook, Twitter or text messaging in public.\u00a0 I like those things and use those functions too but I know it drives me nuts if I&#8217;m talking to someone and their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[537,642],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ipad","tag-words-with-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}