{"id":12314,"date":"2009-10-22T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/22\/the-tal-and-the-short-of-it\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T13:59:01","slug":"the-tal-and-the-short-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/22\/the-tal-and-the-short-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The <i>Tal<\/i> and the <i>Short<\/i> of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Why, with so many painful losses to my &#39;credit,&#39; do I continue to submit my aging self to the rigors of tournament chess? Because the strenuous life has a property Bobby Fischer once ascribed to 1. P-K4: it is &quot;best by test.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, with so many painful losses to my &#39;credit,&#39; do I continue to submit my aging self to the rigors of tournament chess? Because the strenuous life has a property Bobby Fischer once ascribed to 1. P-K4: it is &quot;best by test.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,169,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-chess","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314","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=12314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}