{"id":12,"date":"2006-10-19T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-10-19T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:57:54","slug":"bush-plays-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/10\/19\/bush-plays-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush plays Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004557\"><\/a>&#8220;He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chess boards at once.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/16\/us\/politics\/16snow.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Tony Snow describing his boss, George W Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of an episode of the Simpsons, the one where school is cancelled due to a teacher&#8217;s strike.   Bart goes from chess table to table, moving a chess piece, a wry reference to a scene from &#8220;Searching for Bobby Fisher&#8221;.  A man yells out &#8220;Hey!  This kid&#8217;s playing fthree games of chess at once!&#8221;  This is followed by each of the competitors moving a piece, with &#8220;Check Mate!&#8221; &#8220;Check Mate!&#8221; &#8220;Check Mate!&#8221; Bart says &#8220;Damned&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chess boards at once.&#8221; &#8212; Tony Snow describing his boss, George W Bush. I am reminded of an episode of the Simpsons, the one where school is cancelled due to a teacher&#8217;s strike. Bart goes from chess table to table, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}