{"id":713,"date":"2024-06-23T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/play-the-current-position\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:16:07","slug":"play-the-current-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/play-the-current-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Play the Current Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In life as in chess. There&#39;s no use fretting how you got into it. If not even God can restore a virgin, then surely you cannot undo the mess you are in. You&#39;re in it, now play it.&#0160; Fretting is of use only if it helps you avoid the pickle next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And that reminds me of an online chess player&#39;s moniker: <em>Next Time<\/em>.&#0160; Even better: <em>Weaker than F7<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">After a hard day of tournament play the chess player came home to his wife. The love light shone in her eyes. &quot;Not tonight, honey, I&#39;m weaker that F7.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In life as in chess. There&#39;s no use fretting how you got into it. If not even God can restore a virgin, then surely you cannot undo the mess you are in. You&#39;re in it, now play it.&#0160; Fretting is of use only if it helps you avoid the pickle next time. And that reminds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/play-the-current-position\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play the Current Position&#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":[169,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}