{"id":49361,"date":"2016-03-26T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49361"},"modified":"2016-03-26T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:22:36","slug":"the-pearl-and-diamond-of-fightless-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49361","title":{"rendered":"The pearl and diamond of fightless fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Sun Tzu meets Willie Pep ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SPEC-pearl-diamong-sun-tzu-pep.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SPEC-pearl-diamong-sun-tzu-pep.png\" alt=\"SPEC pearl diamong sun tzu pep\" width=\"601\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SPEC-pearl-diamong-sun-tzu-pep.png 601w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SPEC-pearl-diamong-sun-tzu-pep-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun Tzu<\/strong>&#8216;s fightless victory is like the <strong>Platonic <\/strong>pearl, ideal, perfectly spherical. <strong>Pep<\/strong>&#8216;s blowless round is like a cut diamond, multifaceted &#8212; some claim the tale is true, some that he fabricated the tale years later, some that it was a boast he made before the fight &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sports\/boxing\/news\/story?id=3522638\">one version suggests<\/a> Pep told St. Paul sports writer <strong>Don Riley<\/strong>, who was covering the fight for Minnesota radio station WMIN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pick a round, I&#8217;ll throw punches, but I&#8217;ll never hit him. Check the scorecards after, and see if the judges fall for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knows? A good tale frays into a thousand fugal strands in the Ocean of Story.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>The curiosity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The more facets a diamond built to approximate a sphere has, the closer it comes to the Platonic sphere.. Quite what the analogy with narrative variants would be, currently escapes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Sun Tzu meets Willie Pep ] . ** Sun Tzu&#8216;s fightless victory is like the Platonic pearl, ideal, perfectly spherical. Pep&#8216;s blowless round is like a cut diamond, multifaceted &#8212; some claim the tale is true, some that he fabricated the tale years later, some that it was a boast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,655,964,719,1187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-mathematics","category-narrative","category-sports","category-sun-tzu","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49384,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361\/revisions\/49384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}