{"id":9296,"date":"2012-07-10T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:49:56","slug":"political-compass-the-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2012\/07\/10\/political-compass-the-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Compass (the third)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2965,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-6.12&amp;soc=-5.90&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306093121\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-6.12&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-6.12&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 09:22:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:26:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:38:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:38:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2966,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-6.62&amp;soc=-6.41&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-6.62&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2967,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&amp;soc=-7.33&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306083919\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.politicalcompass.org\\\/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 09:22:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:26:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:38:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:38:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is the third time I&#8217;ve taken this test, though it&#8217;s been a few years &#8212; the first time was <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/27\/political-compass\/\" title=\"eclecticism: Political Compass\">in 2002<\/a>, the second <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/07\/political-compass-redux\/\" title=\"eclecticism: Political Compass (redux)\">in 2003<\/a>, and now, nine years later, comes the third time. It seems I&#8217;m moving ever further towards that bottom left corner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2002: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/printablegraph?ec=-6.12&amp;soc=-5.90\">-6.12\/-5.90<\/a><br \/>\n2003: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/printablegraph?ec=-6.62&amp;soc=-6.41\">-6.62\/-6.41<\/a><br \/>\n2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&amp;soc=-7.33\">-7.12\/-7.33<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9297\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&amp;soc=-7.33\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pcgraphpng.png\" alt=\"My 2012 Political Compass Graph\" title=\"Political Compass Graph\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My 2012 Political Compass Graph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third time I&#8217;ve taken this test, though it&#8217;s been a few years &#8212; the first time was in 2002, the second in 2003, and now, nine years later, comes the third time. It seems I&#8217;m moving ever further towards that bottom left corner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-life","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","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=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}