{"id":661,"date":"2004-11-13T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=661"},"modified":"2004-11-13T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T13:31:54","slug":"checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

My parents are in town this weekend and last night my dad asked me to play chess with you. Mind you, I haven’t played a complete game in at least a couple years. I made a few colossally stupid moves, but I somehow managed to pull off a checkmate using a knight-bishop-rook combo. It was an obvious and clunky strategy and my dad knew he should have seen it coming. Now he’s demanding a rematch and I have a feeling I’ll get my butt kicked this time. Maybe I should fire up my Chessmaster<\/a> program and play a few speed games to get in my groove.
\nEarlier today, I was browsing through some of the galleries on Worth1000<\/a>, a site that holds several Photoshopping contests each week. There are some people doing really fun and original art here, with lots of sly undertones of humor. Check out this week’s pirate gallery to see what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My parents are in town this weekend and last night my dad asked me to play chess with you. Mind you, I haven’t played a complete game in at least a couple years. I made a few colossally stupid moves, but I somehow managed to pull off a checkmate using a knight-bishop-rook combo. It was […]<\/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-661","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-aF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}