{"id":13348,"date":"2013-08-01T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2013-08-31T20:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T01:42:24","slug":"august-random-thread-happy-birthday-museblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13348","title":{"rendered":"August Random Thread: Checkmate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Muse_cover_Sep2002_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Muse cover, February 2002, chess\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>With our birthday party over, we turn to the <em>real<\/em> theme of this month&#8217;s random thread: a celebration of <em>Muse<\/em>, September 2002: the chess issue.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Musers or MBers play chess, but this issue had something for everybody. Robert tracked down and profiled International Master Jeremy Silman, the <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13379\">chess consultant<\/a> for the movie &#8220;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone.&#8221; Nigel Molesworth went &#8220;Back to Skool Agane!&#8221; Robert and Rosanne answered six questions on the Q&#038;A page. And there were manatees! Truly an epic issue.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas for future random threads are <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12791\">still welcome<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/strong> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13424,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions\/13424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}