{"id":65146,"date":"2022-10-13T07:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65146"},"modified":"2022-10-13T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:53:30","slug":"truss-is-in-zugzwang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/13\/truss-is-in-zugzwang\/","title":{"rendered":"Truss is in zugzwang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of the German word zugzwang this morning. It's a term used in chess that means that you are obliged to take a turn but whatever move you make your situation can only get worse. The only alternative is to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Truss would appear to be in zugzwang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of the German word zugzwang this morning. It&#8217;s a term used in chess that means that you are obliged to take a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/13\/truss-is-in-zugzwang\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}