{"id":778,"date":"2005-10-04T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T02:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=778"},"modified":"2005-10-04T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T02:35:31","slug":"politics-as-a-game-of-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Political Punditry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>ometimes, political blogs remind me of a game of chess, analyzed (live, naturally) by a grandmaster with an ELO rating less than 1000 points. I keep imagining the following screen. Mark the double exclamation:\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"centered\" src='.\/wp-content\/checkmate.jpg' alt='Whoops!' \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><small>update: If you didn&#8217;t get it, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punctuation_%28chess%29\">that is exactly the point<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<small>update 2: Hey, algebraic notation at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algebraic_chess_notation\">Wikipedia to the rescue e2-e4+!!!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, political blogs remind me of a game of chess, analyzed (live, naturally) by a grandmaster with an ELO rating less than 1000 points. I keep imagining the following screen. Mark the double exclamation: update: If you didn&#8217;t get it, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=778\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}