{"id":539,"date":"2008-01-01T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-01-01T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T11:17:00","slug":"diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ap0000020r-748206.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ap0000020r-748206.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Given that I&#8217;ll be on paternity leave for the next fortnight, I thought I&#8217;d join a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diplom.org\/\">Diplomacy<\/a>, something which I haven&#8217;t had time to do for a while.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a game of standard gunboat (= anonymous) Diplomacy, so I won&#8217;t reveal the name of the game here, but a map can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/tinylink.com\/?lqvJClpotJ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Austria, and so far Italy and Turkey have been very friendly, Germany OK, and Russia hasn&#8217;t uttered a single word yet.  I would prefer an AIT (Austria-Italy-Turkey) alliance, becoming either AT or AI later, but we&#8217;ll see.  As England very truthfully put it, &#8220;no rumor is worth anything until the<br \/>\nfirst set of moves are completed&#8221;.  Basically, everybody will pretend to be my friend until the first moves (due around the weekend), but their actions will reveal who&#8217;s been lying and who hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I&#8217;ll be on paternity leave for the next fortnight, I thought I&#8217;d join a game of Diplomacy, something which I haven&#8217;t had time to do for a while. It&#8217;s a game of standard gunboat (= anonymous) Diplomacy, so I won&#8217;t reveal the name of the game here, but a map can be found here. I&#8217;m Austria, and so far Italy and Turkey have been very friendly, Germany OK, and Russia hasn&#8217;t uttered a single word yet. I would prefer an AIT (Austria-Italy-Turkey) alliance, becoming either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}