{"id":2940,"date":"2004-11-08T00:37:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/08\/the-divided-states-of-america\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:52:11","slug":"the-divided-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/08\/the-divided-states-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divided States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9875,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thestickingpoint.typepad.com\\\/the_sticking_point\\\/2004\\\/11\\\/divided_states_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250911224732\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thestickingpoint.typepad.com\\\/the_sticking_point\\\/2004\\\/11\\\/divided_states_.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:29:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:29:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This will probably be my last political post for a while (can you say &#8220;burnout,&#8221; kids?), but it was too good not to pass on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Divided States of America\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/11\/graphics\/Divided States of America.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(image by Rolyn via <a href=\"http:\/\/thestickingpoint.typepad.com\/the_sticking_point\/2004\/11\/divided_states_.html\" title=\"Divided States of America\">Tommy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be my last political post for a while, but it was too good not to pass on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}