{"id":3267,"date":"2012-04-27T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2012-04-27T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T23:02:45","slug":"popular-in-the-midwesteros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Popular In The Midwesteros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your weekend entertainment, I give you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/04\/picture-of-the-day-game-of-thrones-vol-vi-a-song-of-soundbites\/256411\/\">comparison of the ruling classes of the U.S. and Westeros<\/a>. It&#8217;s probably the most trenchant political commentary you&#8217;re likely to see in this election year. The person who came up with this idea deserves some kind of geek achievement award. Or at least a congratulatory note from George R.R. Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your weekend entertainment, I give you a comparison of the ruling classes of the U.S. and Westeros. It&#8217;s probably the most trenchant political commentary you&#8217;re likely to see in this election year. The person who came up with this idea deserves some kind of geek achievement award. Or at least a congratulatory note from <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3267' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-pop-culture","category-18-id","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-QH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","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=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}