{"id":24469,"date":"2020-09-16T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24469"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:58:09","slug":"24469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/24469\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1764,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/article\\\/uk-barbados-queen\\\/barbados-says-it-will-remove-queen-as-head-of-state-idUKKBN26716S&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220703005957\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/article\\\/uk-barbados-queen\\\/barbados-says-it-will-remove-queen-as-head-of-state-idUKKBN26716S&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 08:55:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:00:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:20:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:20:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1765,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/what-if.xkcd.com\\\/48&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260202052536\\\/https:\\\/\\\/what-if.xkcd.com\\\/48\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 08:55:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:00:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:20:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:20:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Barbados <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-barbados-queen\/barbados-says-it-will-remove-queen-as-head-of-state-idUKKBN26716S\">will remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state<\/a> (this is mostly symbolic at this point, as they\u2019ve been independent since 1966). However, this doesn\u2019t mean that the sun will finally set on the British Empire \u2014\u00a0that doesn\u2019t happen <a href=\"https:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/48\/\">until they lose the Pitcairn Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (this is mostly symbolic at this point, as they\u2019ve been independent since 1966). However, this doesn\u2019t mean that the sun will finally set on the British Empire \u2014\u00a0that doesn\u2019t happen until they lose the Pitcairn Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-links","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}