{"id":34,"date":"2006-11-07T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/07\/five-peat\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:08:01","slug":"five-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/07\/five-peat\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-Peat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/chess.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Lance Armstrong&#8217;s got nothing on Wabash mathematics professor Peter Thompson and me: last week we successfully defended our intramural chess crown for the faculty\/staff team, claiming our fifth straight championship. Peter and I each went 3-0 in the weighted round-robin tournament, easily outpacing student teams from Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Delta Tau Delta, and Tau Kappa Epsilon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">As a Wabash employee, I thoroughly enjoy living and working in a college environment. Whether IM sports, public lectures, plays, musical performances, art shows, varsity athletics, departmental colloquia, or a host of other activities and events, there&#8217;s no shortage of things to do, and almost all of them free (aside from the occasional computer question from other attendees, of course&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong&#8217;s got nothing on Wabash mathematics professor Peter Thompson and me: last week we successfully defended our intramural chess crown for the faculty\/staff team, claiming our fifth straight championship. Peter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-staff-info"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}