{"id":9758,"date":"2026-03-02T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:47:05","slug":"saturday-knights-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/03\/02\/saturday-knights-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday: Knight&#8217;s Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the sense of never being wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The eighty-degree day was mainly slept-through. I did get caught up with the bro. His Memorial-Dayish sojourn is taking vague shape and I&#8217;m hoping that in some fashion we get together &#8220;Before we get much older&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I alerted him to the near presence of an anniversary with a zero on the end of it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll all work out. Without fussing about it too much in advance. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>To put a pin in another part of that conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States cut off oil supplies to Japan on July 26, 1941. This decision was part of a broader strategy to curb Japanese expansion in Asia, particularly after Japan&#8217;s occupation of French Indochina. Following this embargo, Japan faced significant resource shortages, contributing to its decision to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and subsequently enter World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The July 1941 embargo by the United States cut off approximately 90% of Japan&#8217;s oil supplies. This dramatic reduction left Japan in a precarious position, heavily reliant on imports for its military and economic needs. Without this critical resource, Japan&#8217;s military operations were severely constrained, influencing their strategic decisions leading up to World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the lack of attribution for these bits of content &#8230; they are of course a collaboration between my prompts, and the AI&#8217;s attempts to address my questions. That&#8217;ll probably be more like the norm going forward, and I&#8217;m not going to say it explicitly every time, so &#8230; make of that what you will, and <em>cave canem<\/em> or <em>caveat emptor<\/em> and all that good old-fashioned shit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the sense of never being wrong. The eighty-degree day was mainly slept-through. I did get caught up with the bro. His Memorial-Dayish sojourn is taking vague shape and I&#8217;m hoping that in some fashion we get together &#8220;Before we get much older&#8221;. I alerted him to the near presence of an anniversary with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}