{"id":233,"date":"2007-08-30T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2007-08-30T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:28:28","slug":"iraq-chess-scratch-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/iraq-chess-scratch-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq &#038; chess: scratch-marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and worthwhile interview with journalist Nir Rosen on Iraq. It puts forth the idea that Iraq as a country does not exist any more in any practical terms, other than as a flag. He&#8217;s being interviewed by Amy Goodman, who has done excellent progressive work for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Interview transcript available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/08\/21\/1349252\">www.democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is chess day at Kellys. Yay! We&#8217;re up to six-eight people each time, and even though I haven&#8217;t won, it&#8217;s great fun. One week ago a new player showed up and managed to cinch the win by only loosing to the second place player and tie with me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image741\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2007\/08\/scaleddsc00733.JPG\" alt=\"scaleddsc00733.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>11 year old <del>brat<\/del> Elliot kicked our asses. While we were drinking beer he was eating a icesickle. It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>And on an unrelated note, I have scratchmarks! I&#8217;m a man!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image742\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2007\/08\/img_8802.jpg\" alt=\"img_8802.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and worthwhile interview with journalist Nir Rosen on Iraq. It puts forth the idea that Iraq as a country does not exist any more in any practical terms, other than as a flag. He&#8217;s being interviewed by Amy Goodman, who has done excellent progressive work for a long time. Interview transcript available &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/iraq-chess-scratch-marks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraq &#038; chess: scratch-marks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1884,1890],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-doodles","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}