{"id":2147,"date":"2013-04-19T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-04-19T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:53:11","slug":"magnus-carlsen-on-time-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"Magnus Carlsen on Time 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week TIME magazine published its annual list of &#8220;the 100 most influential people in the world,&#8221; and guess who was on it? Oh, I guess the title of this post gave it away. Magnus Carlsen made the list, and got a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/time100.time.com\/2013\/04\/18\/time-100\/slide\/magnus-carlsen\/\" target=\"_blank\">one-paragraph bio<\/a> from Garry Kasparov, who wrote, &#8220;his intuitive style conserves the mystique of chess at a time when every CPU-enhanced fan thinks the game is easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was interesting that TIME divided the list into Titans, Pioneers, Icons, Leaders, and Artists. What a puzzling list. What is the difference between a Titan, a Pioneer, and an Icon? Can they not be one and the same? Why include Artists but not Scientists? I guess scientists aren&#8217;t influential enough.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Magnus was listed as a Titan. Last I heard, the Titans were a race of old gods that came in second in a war against the Olympians. I hope this isn&#8217;t a bad omen for him. Congratulations on the recognition, Magnus &#8230; now go back to getting ready for Viswanathan Anand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week TIME magazine published its annual list of &#8220;the 100 most influential people in the world,&#8221; and guess who was on it? Oh, I guess the title of this post gave it away. Magnus Carlsen made the list, and got a nice one-paragraph bio from Garry Kasparov, who wrote, &#8220;his intuitive style conserves the [&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":[1363,25,171],"tags":[752,2514,2512,2513,2511],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-people","category-ruminations","tag-garry-kasparov","tag-influential-people","tag-olympians","tag-popular-culture","tag-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}