{"id":890,"date":"2013-08-06T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=890"},"modified":"2013-08-06T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:43:14","slug":"a-struggle-as-old-as-time-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"A Struggle as Old as Time Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-899\" alt=\"kangarooFight\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kangarooFight.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/>There are many classic battles, of course, conflicts that define the combatants even as those foes fight and die.\u00a0 Pirates versus ninjas, Ford versus Chevy, alligators versus gars &#8211; would these entities even know how to carry on without their adversaries?<\/p>\n<p>But of course, there is one struggle that rises above all of these, and it is only fortunate that the contenders gave discovered a way to play out their conflict without tearing each other limb from limb, and possibly harming innocent bystanders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2013\/07\/27\/vermont-softball-battle\">Yes, this is probably best, all things considered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, it is nice that the poets managed to win something, since it will likely be their last experience with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many classic battles, of course, conflicts that define the combatants even as those foes fight and die.\u00a0 Pirates versus ninjas, Ford versus Chevy, alligators versus gars &#8211; would these entities even know how to carry on without their adversaries? But of course, there is one struggle that rises above all of these, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}