{"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":"<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>.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-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;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 10:37:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 03:00:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 02:22:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 12:59:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 22:04:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-23 02:05:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10 11:21:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-17 14:48:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-02 16:59:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-05 19:22:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-05 19:22:59&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;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 10:37:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 03:00:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 02:22:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 12:59:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 22:04:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-23 02:05:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10 11:21:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-17 14:48:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-02 16:59:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-05 19:23:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-05 19:23:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/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}]}}