{"id":1592,"date":"2007-05-29T18:19:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2007-05-29T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T18:19:22","slug":"global_phenomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Global Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I glanced at my Frappr map<\/a> the other day and noted with satisfaction that several more readers have marked their locations. A big hello to my fans in Uganda and Togo. But South America, Asia, and Australia remain blank. Clearly, I need to do more to increase my international appeal. Hmm. I’m already strongly critical of Bush. I know jack about soccer–er, football–so that’s out. I could try writing something en francais, but I don’t think that will attract people in Argentina or China. I guess I’ll just have to depend on my charm and good looks. Think of me as more humble, more respectful, more well-informed mirror image of all those ugly Americans that come traipsing through your countries with their fanny packs and baseball caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I glanced at my Frappr map the other day and noted with satisfaction that several more readers have marked their locations. A big hello to my fans in Uganda and Togo. But South America, Asia, and Australia remain blank. Clearly, I need to do more to increase my international appeal. Hmm. I’m already strongly critical […]<\/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-1592","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-pG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}