{"id":2178,"date":"2022-03-10T05:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/chess-as-consolation\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T05:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:58:05","slug":"chess-as-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/chess-as-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consolation of Caissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Chess is an oasis of sanity in an insane world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I just now lost a three-minute ICC game to a Ukrainian player whose 3-min rating is 1378. He calls himself IM Serg2008.&#0160; I am happy to play the patzer for someone so beleaguered.&#0160; (Actually, I am not merely playing the patzer; I am one.) Well, at least Serg has access to cyberspace for the nonce, and Caissa&#39;s consolation in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess is an oasis of sanity in an insane world. I just now lost a three-minute ICC game to a Ukrainian player whose 3-min rating is 1378. He calls himself IM Serg2008.&#0160; I am happy to play the patzer for someone so beleaguered.&#0160; (Actually, I am not merely playing the patzer; I am one.) Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/chess-as-consolation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Consolation of Caissa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}