{"id":2583,"date":"2017-03-06T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T14:34:57","slug":"aldos-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2017\/03\/06\/aldos-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldo&#8217;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I set out to write a novel, and ended up with this short story draft. Thanks to Mary Collins for some editing. Comments most welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALDO&#8217;S DIARY by Frank Morgan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, Penny beat me at chess.\u201d Penny\u2019s mother, Elizabeth Murrow, stopped loading the clothes washer and stopped thinking about triangles in the hyperbolic plane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenny?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I did \u2014 I beat Aldo at chess. And he\u2019s two years older than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I thought you said you weren\u2019t any good at games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAldo, did you let her win?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe forked my king and my rook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenny, you forked his king and his rook?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I planned it, like Dad did to me last night. I attacked his king and his rook at the same time with my knight, and since he had to move his king, I got his rook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2017\/03\/Aldo6March17.pdf\">Click here to continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set out to write a novel, and ended up with this short story draft. Thanks to Mary Collins for some editing. Comments most welcome. ALDO&#8217;S DIARY by Frank Morgan \u201cMom, Penny beat me at chess.\u201d Penny\u2019s mother, Elizabeth Murrow, stopped loading the clothes washer and stopped thinking about triangles in the hyperbolic plane. \u201cPenny?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}