{"id":5112,"date":"2017-10-25T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:50:49","slug":"chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/chess-players-commiserate-on-their-failed-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Players Commiserate on their Failed Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"

A: "We were bishops of opposite color." <\/span><\/p>\n

B:  "Sorry to hear that.  In our case the union ended when she discovered I had insufficient mating material."<\/span><\/p>\n

C:  "We just couldn't get it together.  Whenever she wanted to make love, I was busy making Luft<\/em>."<\/span><\/p>\n

D: "She blew her stack when I gingerly brought up the topic of back-rank mate."<\/span><\/p>\n

E. "She got tired of my excuses,  especially 'Sorry, honey, not tonight. After a hard day at the office I'm weaker than f7.'"<\/span><\/p>\n

F. "The bitch had a way of putting me in psychological Zugzwang<\/em>: no matter what I said or did, I only dug my hole deeper."<\/span><\/p>\n

G. "In bed one night she called me a perv when I muttered something about the Lucena position. <\/span><\/p>\n

H. "Her frigidity did us in.  She'd allow a check but never a mate."<\/span><\/p>\n

I.  "She said  I lacked ambition citing my penchant for underpromotion."<\/span><\/p>\n

J.  "We fought like knights and bishops."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A: "We were bishops of opposite color."  B:  "Sorry to hear that.  In our case the union ended when she discovered I had insufficient mating material." C:  "We just couldn't get it together.  Whenever she wanted to make love, I was busy making Luft." D: "She blew her stack when I gingerly brought up the topic … Continue reading “Chess Players Commiserate on their Failed Marriages”<\/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":[169,242,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-humor","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","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=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}