{"id":4379,"date":"2020-01-09T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:40:12","slug":"a-knave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"A Knave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<w:UseFELayout\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/<br \/>\n table.MsoNormalTable<br \/>\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";<br \/>\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;<br \/>\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;<br \/>\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;<br \/>\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";<br \/>\n\tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;<br \/>\n\tmso-para-margin:0cm;<br \/>\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;<br \/>\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;<br \/>\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;<br \/>\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";<br \/>\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;<br \/>\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;<br \/>\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Another deal and I\u2019ve lost count of how many times that Jack of Spades has been flipped; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\">to think that playing solitaire to beyond midnight might bring answers is sheer lunacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Better a set of Tarot cards or a Ouija board, or casting down bones out across the table,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\">for I am dazed watching the cards fall \u2013 that is until I see (again) that one-eyed knave \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\">regal, yet sinister, knowingly glaring into the future and all that can and will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; 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