{"id":9155,"date":"2021-11-02T22:20:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:20:48","slug":"the-skirtboot-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/02\/the-skirtboot-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skirtboot Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and I invented and played this game in San Francisco in 2007-2009. It was great fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rules are simple, if you see a person with one of the attributes on the list, you get a point!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wearing a skirt and boots (the titular &#8220;skirtboot&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Holding a Yoga mat<\/li>\n<li>Bald gay man<\/li>\n<li>Parka and bare knees<\/li>\n<li>White person with dreadlocks<\/li>\n<li>Guy in a suit riding a skateboard (added by Charlotte&#8217;s friend John the chocolate maker 7\/09)<\/li>\n<li>Moon boots (optional rules, added by Lee 11-1-09)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>-1 point for your opponent: wearing a hoodie and riding a fixie. It&#8217;s worth negative points because no one wants to see that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can earn a tremendous number points when you see someone with several of the items above. Points awarded are <strong>the square of the number of attributes<\/strong> seen on one person. IE: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25<\/p>\n<p>So if you saw a bald gay man wearing a skirtboot and carrying a yoga mat, you&#8217;d earn 9 points in one go!!<\/p>\n<p>Hurray for hipster San Francisco!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and I invented and played this game in San Francisco in 2007-2009. It was great fun! &nbsp; The rules are simple, if you see a person with one of the attributes on the list, you get a point! Wearing a skirt and boots (the titular &#8220;skirtboot&#8221;) Holding a Yoga mat Bald gay man Parka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9156,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}