{"id":856,"date":"2009-08-10T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplemass.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2009-08-10T15:32:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T21:32:43","slug":"thirty-six-stratagems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-Six Stratagems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <em><strong>Thirty-Six Stratagems<\/strong><\/em> (<a title=\"Traditional Chinese characters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traditional_Chinese_characters\">traditional Chinese<\/a>: <span lang=\"zh-Hant\" xml:lang=\"zh-Hant\">\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u8a08<\/span>; <a title=\"Simplified Chinese characters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simplified_Chinese_characters\">simplified Chinese<\/a>: <span lang=\"zh-Hans\" xml:lang=\"zh-Hans\">\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u8ba1<\/span>; <a title=\"Pinyin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinyin\">pinyin<\/a>: S\u0101nsh\u00edli\u00f9 J\u00ec) was a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of <a title=\"Stratagem\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stratagem\">stratagems<\/a> used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means. They were first published in the Western world<sup class=\"noprint Template-Fact\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\" title=\"This claim needs references to reliable sources from December 2008\">[<em><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup> by the Swiss scholar <a class=\"new\" title=\"Harro von Senger (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harro_von_Senger&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Harro von Senger<\/a> after he heard the Chinese proverb &#8220;If all else fails, retreat&#8221; at <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Taipei University\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taipei_University\">Taipei University<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirty-Six_Stratagems\">wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not too sure where\/when I came across this &#8211; I think it was on one of those tweets #iranelection recently.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thirty-Six Stratagems (traditional Chinese: \u4e09\u5341\u516d\u8a08; simplified Chinese: \u4e09\u5341\u516d\u8ba1; pinyin: S\u0101nsh\u00edli\u00f9 J\u00ec) was a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means. They were first published in the Western world[citation needed] by the Swiss scholar Harro von Senger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}