{"id":11965,"date":"2009-12-26T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/26\/how-the-world-is-like-chess\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:26:42","slug":"how-the-world-is-like-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/26\/how-the-world-is-like-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"How the World is Like Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A wise saying about chess, often attributed to Goethe, but apocryphal for all I know, goes like this. &quot;For a game it is too serious, and for seriousness too much of a game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Something similar is true of the world. The world is is too real, too much with us, for us to detach ourselves from it easily; but it is too deficient in being to satisfy us. One cannot take it with utmost seriousness, and one cannot dismiss it as a mere game either. &quot;For a game it is too serious, and for seriousness too much of a game.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wise saying about chess, often attributed to Goethe, but apocryphal for all I know, goes like this. &quot;For a game it is too serious, and for seriousness too much of a game.&quot; Something similar is true of the world. The world is is too real, too much with us, for us to detach ourselves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/26\/how-the-world-is-like-chess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the World is Like Chess&#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":[169,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965","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=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}