{"id":5793,"date":"2007-11-21T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/5793\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:46:21","slug":"oblique-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Oblique Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0892811455%26tag=ghosthouse01-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0892811455%253FSubscriptionId=1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02\" title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/21OEkoOP-jL.jpg\" width=\"107\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 I was just looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtqe.net\/ObliqueStrategies\/\">Oblique Strategies<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a deck of cards that you consult a bit like an oracle or the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Ching\"><em>i ching<\/em><\/a> when you are stuck on a problem, the general implication being you are a creative working on something.\u00c2\u00a0 It was originally authored by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Eno\">Brian Eno<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Schmidt\">Peter Schmidt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an online version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thraeryn.org\/strategies\/draw.cgi\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of what is interesting is the personal contract with yourself necessary to use it; you have to convince yourself you are going to follow whatever advice the card gives you.<\/p>\n<p>Something that is also fascinating&#8211; this deck of cards has been around since the 1970s, and the original editions, which were all signed, sell on ebay for crazy amounts of money.  I wonder if the buyers are actually using the cards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I was just looking at Oblique Strategies.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a deck of cards that you consult a bit like an oracle or the i ching when you are stuck on a problem, the general implication being you are a creative working on something.\u00c2\u00a0 It was originally authored by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. There&#8217;s an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}