{"id":127,"date":"2005-03-22T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T17:25:42","slug":"bobby-fischer-update-icelanders-lock-up-your-mattresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/03\/bobby-fischer-update-icelanders-lock-up-your-mattresses.html","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Fischer update: Icelanders, lock up your mattresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Way back when this blog started I cynically padded things out by regurgitating a story about chess master Bobby Fischer <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/08\/filler-by-proxy-journey-to-centre-of.html\">getting arrested in Japan<\/a>.  For the past six months he&#8217;s been parking his arse in Japanese gaol waiting for deportation to the USA to stand trial over a small matter involving an international war criminal and several million dollars, but just recently there have been several suprising developments.  Firstly, I&#8217;ve updated the blog a few times.  Secondly, Bobby is finally on his way home.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-1536759,00.html\">To Iceland.<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Iceland\u2019s Parliament last night granted Mr Fischer full Icelandic citizenship, opening the way for him to leave Japan for that country.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Chieko Nono, the Japanese Justice Minister, told reporters that if Mr Fischer has been granted Icelandic citizenship, it would be &#8220;legally possible to deport him to that country&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlism.com\/index.htm?ism=amanda+vanstone&amp;type=1\">Amanda Vanstone<\/a> agreeing to something like this?<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/fischer.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back when this blog started I cynically padded things out by regurgitating a story about chess master Bobby Fischer getting arrested in Japan. For the past six months he&#8217;s been parking his arse in Japanese gaol waiting for deportation to the USA to stand trial over a small matter involving an international war criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}