{"id":1053,"date":"2005-12-05T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2005-12-05T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:00:16","slug":"current_affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I renewed my MPR<\/a> membership, I received a subscription to The Economist<\/a> as my thank-you gift. I have a sinking feeling that I’m going to have to devote entire Sundays to keeping up with my magazines. But at least I can speak knowledgeably on voters’ recent rejection of Kenya’s draft constitution. You never know when that sort of thing might come in handy at a dinner party. Of course, there’s always the risk that I might come across as an insufferable bore.
\nThanks to everyone who has identified themselves on my Frappr<\/a> map. I find it fascinating to see all of the places my readers call home. If you haven’t done so yet, I hope you’ll consider adding yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I renewed my MPR membership, I received a subscription to The Economist as my thank-you gift. I have a sinking feeling that I’m going to have to devote entire Sundays to keeping up with my magazines. But at least I can speak knowledgeably on voters’ recent rejection of Kenya’s draft constitution. You never know […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}