{"id":3556,"date":"2014-12-16T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:36:12","slug":"aces-high-victoria-12162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Aces High \u2013 Victoria \u2013 [12\/16\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"queen_of_hearts_by_juli_snowwhite-d2dil64\"<\/a>Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy <\/em>
\n She’ll beat you if she’s able <\/em>
\n You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet ~ Desparado<\/em><\/p>\n

So, Amras is visiting for Christmas \u2013 well for the time in between his next contract that is, which happens to fall relatively close to Christmas \u2013 so since I got home, I\u2019ve been running around considerably more than I usually would in my first week back (this is not a bad thing really), but yesterday I was sitting curled up in the living room catching up on Once Upon A Time<\/em> when he stuck his head in.<\/p>\n

Hey Sis, you almost done with your show?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026why?<\/em><\/p>\n

And I walk into the dining room and he gestures to a card table set up there, with two wine glasses, and one sheet of paper turned faced down.<\/p>\n

Have a seat\u2026have a drink\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

O\u2026kay\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Right. Most important thing of all? The ability to keep a straight face.<\/em><\/p>\n

And he flips the paper over, and the basic rules of poke stare up at me. My Big Brother is teaching me poker. Be afraid\u2026be very afraid\u2026<\/p>\n

My father has proved rather amusing about this whole enterprise, he stood watching us play for a little while, and then shrugged<\/p>\n

Watch it, she\u2019s an actress, and she\u2019s very smart and very logical\u2026once she gets the hang of that she\u2019ll cream you\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Heh, yeah\u2026in my dreams\u2026right now, I still can\u2019t remember what beats what!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy She’ll beat you if she’s able You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet ~ Desparado So, Amras is visiting for Christmas \u2013 well for the time in between … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}