{"id":200861,"date":"2014-07-19T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/19\/ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T05:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T05:47:23","slug":"ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/19\/ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-200861 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/19\/ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my\/attachment\/200862\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/19\/ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my\/attachment\/200863\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n7wfwbdovx1qd88tjo2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivyblossom.tumblr.com\/post\/90982635460\/dont-be-smart-my-favourite-part-of-this-is-how\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ivyblossom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/esgaroths.tumblr.com\/post\/90191418931\" target=\"_blank\">esgaroths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t be smart.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourite part of this is how apparently, at some point, one of them two of them started a sentence with something along the lines of: \u201cWell, how about a game of Operation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consider: Sherlock Holmes, who is bored by normal life and won\u2019t get out of bed for anything less than an 8 agrees to play Operation\u00a0(ages 6+) with his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock and his odd commitment to board games\u00a0might be one of my favourite things about this show. The seemingly-incongruous playfulness of it! The fact that Sherlock\u2019s willing roll dice and wield tweezers just for <em>fun;<\/em>\u00a0this is a man who equates fun with freshly-murdered bodies, so I kind of love that board games as also on his list. And John won\u2019t play Cluedo with him again! The tragedy of it! John, don\u2019t deny Sherlock his simple pleasures! Come on! Play Cluedo with him!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just Cluedo John\u2019s ruled out. Maybe they have a stack of 1970s board games hidden somewhere that they pull out regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Or does Mycroft have a vintage and pristine 1965 game of Operation in his briefcase which he brandishes at key moments? Does he look at Sherlock and think,\u00a0<em>yes, he needs a round or two of a childhood board game right now. That will cheer him right up. Excellent use of our time!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s the unexpected thing John and Sherlock do right after the plane lands. They go back to 221b for a rousing game of Go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ivyblossom: esgaroths: Don\u2019t be smart. My favourite part of this is how apparently, at some point, one of them two of them started a sentence with something along the lines of: \u201cWell, how about a game of Operation?\u201d Consider: Sherlock Holmes, who is bored by normal life and won\u2019t get out of bed for anything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/19\/ivyblossom-esgaroths-dont-be-smart-my\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,21465,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200864,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200861\/revisions\/200864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}