{"id":10201,"date":"2011-11-09T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/two-chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages\/"},"modified":"2011-11-09T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:06:50","slug":"two-chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/two-chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Players Commiserate on Their Failed Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A: &quot;We were bishops of opposite color.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">B:&#0160; &quot;Sorry to hear that.&#0160; In our case the union ended when she discovered I had insufficient mating material.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">C:&#0160; &quot;We just couldn&#39;t get it together.&#0160; When ever she wanted to make love, I was busy making <em>Luft<\/em>.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">D: &quot;She blew her stack when I gingerly brought up the topic of back-rank mate.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">E. &quot;She got tired of my excuses, &#0160;especially &#39;Sorry, honey, not tonight. After a hard day at the office I&#39;m weaker than f7.&#39;&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">F. &quot;The bitch had a way of putting me in psychological <em>Zugzwang<\/em>: no matter what I said or did,&#0160;I only dug my hole deeper.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">G. &quot;In bed one night she called me a perv when I muttered something about the Lucena position.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">H. &quot;Her frigidity did us in.&#0160; She&#39;d allow a check but never a mate.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I.&#0160; &quot;She&#0160;said &#0160;I lacked ambition citing my penchant for underpromotion.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">J.&#0160; &quot;We fought like knights and bishops.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A: &quot;We were bishops of opposite color.&quot;&#0160; B:&#0160; &quot;Sorry to hear that.&#0160; In our case the union ended when she discovered I had insufficient mating material.&quot; C:&#0160; &quot;We just couldn&#39;t get it together.&#0160; When ever she wanted to make love, I was busy making Luft.&quot; D: &quot;She blew her stack when I gingerly brought up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/two-chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chess Players Commiserate on Their Failed Marriages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}