{"id":256,"date":"2007-05-14T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2007-05-14T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T06:36:20","slug":"firstnatlrockpaperscissorstournamentinlasvegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/firstnatlrockpaperscissorstournamentinlasvegas\/","title":{"rendered":"First Nat&#039;l Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/girlsofrps.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s American superficiality at its best in Las Vegas today as the World Rock, Paper, Scissors final tournament is being held.  The prize? $50,000.<br \/>\nOh yes, the same method you used to decide who had to go over the fence and get the baseball as a kid can earn you more than the annual income of most people in the industrialized world.  There&#8217;s some very well-written commentary about the event in &#8220;The New York Times&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/14\/us\/14rock.html?ex=1336795200&#038;en=4ced52bb8421bf8f&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/14\/us\/14rock.html?ex=1336795200&#038;en=4ced52bb8421bf8f&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss<\/a> or you could just watch it on ESPN as it happens.  Seriously.<br \/>\nFor more about the world of Rock, Paper Scissors I found the &#8220;RPS Society website&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldrps.com\/\">http:\/\/www.worldrps.com\/<\/a> to be very helpful.  They also have up to the minute tournament coverage on their main blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s American superficiality at its best in Las Vegas today as the World Rock, Paper, Scissors final tournament is being held. The prize? $50,000. Oh yes, the same method you used to decide who had to go over the fence and get the baseball as a kid can earn you more than the annual income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[156,383],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-games","tag-us-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}