{"id":2818,"date":"2017-04-26T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2017-04-27T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:31:03","slug":"checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/?p=2734\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"..\/comics\/avatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;ll just come out and say it: I love Chess. No not the musical, the game! GOD! You read the comic strip just a sec ago. But it is indeed a game of strategy, deceit and power!<\/p>\n<p>Like I mentioned in &#8220;Chess Club&#8221; that I posted last year, I used to be the local junior chess champion back in the day. I can tell you stories about how I as a 10 year old won games over much older, more experienced player by playing &#8220;dumb&#8221; and making them underestimate me, because you know, I&#8217;m just a kid. But then turning around and putting them right in their spot. The angry glare they tended to give as we I reached out and shook their hand afterwards. Ah! Those were good times! <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recently started looking up YouTube videos at work when they go though famous games and such, and it is oddly relaxing. I&#8217;ve got to admit that it really makes me want to play more. And that&#8217;s how I came up with this comic strip!<\/p>\n<p>Also, on a creative note: I probably spent waaay too much time on drawing up those chess pieces on the board. I know I&#8217;ve got at least one more chess related strip written down so I guess maybe I&#8217;ll get some more use out of them? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway! Stay awesome, slacker dudes and dudettes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just come out and say it: I love Chess. No not the musical, the game! GOD! You read the comic strip just a sec ago. But it is indeed a game of strategy, deceit and power! Like I mentioned in &#8220;Chess Club&#8221; that I posted last year, I used to be the local junior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[500,766,37,836,516,24,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}