{"id":27870,"date":"2016-06-16T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=27870"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:30:18","slug":"the-return-of-pigeon-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/the-return-of-pigeon-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of pigeon chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already more than two years ago, I stumbled across the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/pigeon-chess\/\">pigeon chess<\/a>. Simply put, it comes from a quotation to the effect that &#8220;debating a (whoever) is like playing chess with a pigeon &#8211; it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around and flies back to its flock to brag about how it won&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27871\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/the-return-of-pigeon-chess\/pigeon-chess-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 6D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pigeon-chess\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"pigeon-chess\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pigeon-chess.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still oh-so-relevant today.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already more than two years ago, I stumbled across the concept of pigeon chess. Simply put, it comes from a quotation to the effect that &#8220;debating a (whoever) is like playing chess with a pigeon &#8211; it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around and flies back to its flock to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/the-return-of-pigeon-chess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The return of pigeon chess&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,520,40],"class_list":["post-27870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots","tag-re-member","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-7fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27872,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions\/27872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}