{"id":1221,"date":"2011-11-07T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:46:02","slug":"chico-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Chico Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I got a wonderful surprise in my e-mail. A reader named Edson Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Cortiano, who lives in Brazil, sent me several chess cartoons that he has drawn, and he has given me permission to post them in my blog.<\/p>\n<p>I have to apologize that my blog is not ideally set up for a standard cartoon (four panels across). The blog template I&#8217;m using has a very narrow column format, and there is unfortunately no way to change it without ditching the whole template. So I&#8217;ve had to chop up the panels up so they will fit into the space available. This is not an ideal solution because as you can see, he has a very free-flowing style and the pictures sometimes overlap the panel boundaries (see panels two and three).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here you go: The first episode of &#8220;Chico Mate&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-h1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-h1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-h2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-h2.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chico-mate-2.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaack! Checkers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I got a wonderful surprise in my e-mail. A reader named Edson Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Cortiano, who lives in Brazil, sent me several chess cartoons that he has drawn, and he has given me permission to post them in my blog. I have to apologize that my blog is not ideally set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,25,171],"tags":[2009,2011,2010,383],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","category-people","category-ruminations","tag-brazil","tag-checkers","tag-cortiano","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}