{"id":271746,"date":"2025-05-23T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271746"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:53:34","slug":"connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271746","title":{"rendered":"Connections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bicokNHXgJQ?si=Bg9QJRMFAMEV3prK&amp;start=245\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/connections.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Nori and I play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/wordle\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wordle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/strands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connections<\/a> on the daily. In yesterday\u2019s Connections, I was like, \u2018All these characters are green: Shrek, Grinch, Hulk\u2026 El-PHAY-ba. El-FA-ba. How the fuck do you say her name?\u2019 Nori was like, \u2018It\u2019s EL-pha-ba.\u2019 I\u2019ve never seen <em>Wicked<\/em> so \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmh_6z9AWfc?si=pIyeMjRLl-ccfLog\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember being at the movies with a guy, and the credits were rolling at the end, and he was like, \u2018Who the fuck was Zo?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Zo? It\u2019s pronounced \u2018Zo-ee.\u2019 The main character?\u2019 He had never seen \u2018Zoe\u2019 spelled before so didn\u2019t know how to pronounce it. I remember thinking, \u2018You stupid bitch \ud83e\udd23\u2019 and now look who\u2019s a stupid bitch now \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nori and I play Wordle, Strands and Connections on the daily. In yesterday\u2019s Connections, I was like, \u2018All these characters are green: Shrek, Grinch, Hulk\u2026 El-PHAY-ba. El-FA-ba. How the fuck do you say her name?\u2019 Nori was like, \u2018It\u2019s EL-pha-ba.\u2019 I\u2019ve never seen Wicked so \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af I remember being at the movies with a guy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,225,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-movies","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271751,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271746\/revisions\/271751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}