{"id":535,"date":"2004-07-16T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=535"},"modified":"2004-07-16T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T19:07:53","slug":"searching_for_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Searching For Bobby Fischer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is no longer necessary. Japanese officials arrested him today on passport violations<\/a> and he may be deported to the U.S., where he’s wanted on charges of sanction violations for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia in 1992. When I started playing chess, Bobby Fischer was the first chess “celebrity” I had ever heard of. And then as I got older I learned about his odd behavior and his virulent anti-Semitism. Now he strikes me as a sad, pathetic man who squandered any opportunity he might have had to achieve true greatness.
\nThe UN has a list of ten stories<\/a> that the world should know more about. One of the stories concerns work on an international treaty to protect the rights of people with disabilities<\/a>. The article provides a good overview of past UN instruments dealing with the rights of PWD and how to the proposed treaty will be a more comprehensive declaration of their rights. The article also makes some interesting observations about rights as a function of a nation’s economic resources. Can a PWD living in the United States and a PWD living in Cameroon or Syria expect the same rights and protections? If a country doesn’t have the resources to make buildings accessible or to provide basic support services (like education), do those inadequacies constitute a fundamental violation of an individual’s rights? These are fascinating questions and the policy wonk in me yearns to be involved in these discussions. I read that the UN may set up a monitoring body to oversee enforcement of the treaty once it’s signed and I’d love a chance to interview for that kind of job. I’m well aware of the UN’s shortcomings, but I respect the ideals for which it stands and I believe it has the capacity to work for real change in the world.
\nMy friend is flying in tonight. Blogging may be more abbreviated over the next week, but should still proceed on schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is no longer necessary. Japanese officials arrested him today on passport violations and he may be deported to the U.S., where he’s wanted on charges of sanction violations for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia in 1992. When I started playing chess, Bobby Fischer was the first chess “celebrity” I had ever heard of. And then […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}