{"id":5485,"date":"2012-02-22T05:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2012-02-22T05:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:51:25","slug":"one-book-calls-for-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5485","title":{"rendered":"One book calls for another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; of books, wars and games, three things seldom far from my mind ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went thrifting with young master David, and found myself a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-King-Red-Queen-Chessboard\/dp\/B005M509WM\/\"><strong>Daniel Johnson<\/strong>&#8216;s White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-chess-v-go1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-chess-v-go1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC chess v go\" width=\"576\" height=\"623\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-chess-v-go1.png 576w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-chess-v-go1-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This happy event makes me anxious to reclaim my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Protracted-Game-Interpretation-Revolutionary-Strategy\/dp\/0195014936\"><strong>Scott Boorman<\/strong>&#8216;s The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch&#8217;i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy<\/a> from storage.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things about books is that they call to each other.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The clock in the SPECS image above is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbeatablesales.com\/snwd112.html\">Sunnywood 3246B Plastic Mechanical Chess Clock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; of books, wars and games, three things seldom far from my mind ] . Yesterday I went thrifting with young master David, and found myself a copy of Daniel Johnson&#8216;s White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard. This happy event makes me anxious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,133,526,144,529,142,91,687,127,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-book","category-charles-cameron","category-china","category-games","category-mao","category-russia","category-specs","category-strategy","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}