{"id":22347,"date":"2004-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/mahjong\/"},"modified":"2004-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T06:00:00","slug":"mahjong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/mahjong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahjong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0425173895\/qid=1089816736\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/103-9050009-4219040?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">&#8220;The Murder of Roger Ackroyd&#8221;<\/a> the other night and one of the chapters involved a game of Mahjong. It was really fun to read because the players played a lot like my family (and I&#8217;m sure many other families) plays. The characters were discussing the murder, but also throwing out phrases like &#8220;pung&#8221;, &#8220;chow&#8221;, &#8220;concealed kong&#8221;, etc. And then one complained about &#8220;chowing&#8221; too early, and how her hand wouldn&#8217;t be worth anything. One was of the opinion that you should go for a big hand, the other was of the opinion that you should &#8220;go out&#8221; quickly. I could imagine my family gathered at the kitchen table at 11pm some of us going for a limit hand, while others looking to go out quickly. Such fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading &#8220;The Murder of Roger Ackroyd&#8221; the other night and one of the chapters involved a game of Mahjong. It was really fun to read because the players played a lot like my family (and I&#8217;m sure many other families) plays. The characters were discussing the murder, but also throwing out phrases like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/mahjong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahjong<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Fk3x-mahjong","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}