{"id":9260,"date":"2026-04-22T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:02:58","slug":"mean-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2026\/04\/22\/mean-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We play Go Fish after school.<br>We play Go Fish till bedtime.<br>We play Go Fish till our eyes spin and our brains leak out our ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look up the rules for Old Maid and it&#8217;s dead simple and also called Old Maid. I introduce it as Mean Queen which maybe has its own baggage. Mean Queen in the suit of black, the darksider soothsayer, the witch. She brooks no bullshit. She punches up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we play, her sister is jailed. From behind her kabob skewer prison bars she harangues us, demands justice, while the Mean Queen passes among us like the plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"986\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/meanqueen-986x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The queen of spades is trapped in a cardboard jail with wooden skewer prison bars.\" class=\"wp-image-9261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/meanqueen-986x1200.jpg 986w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/meanqueen-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/meanqueen-1261x1536.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/meanqueen.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I tend to lose.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can I say, my queen favors me.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And I stand by my queen.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look up the rules for Old Maid and it&#8217;s dead simple and also called Old Maid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}