{"id":4706,"date":"2010-11-22T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2010-11-22T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:02:33","slug":"the-presidents-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/11\/22\/the-presidents-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidents of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual meeting of the Presidents of Things attracts no protests; it&#8217;s held in a Days Inn and anyway, no one understands its importance. \u00c2\u00a0The President of Grownups makes sure of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have new business to get through, people, pay attention!&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0The President of Whether You&#8217;re Paying Attention raps her gavel and frowns. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Can we just do a quick vote? \u00c2\u00a0Those in favor?&#8221; A chorus. &#8220;Those opposed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nay,&#8221; says the President of Internet, without raising her voice.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody gets quiet at that. \u00c2\u00a0The President of Internet is a nice lady and all, but never forget: \u00c2\u00a0she knows what you did.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual meeting of the Presidents of Things attracts no protests; it&#8217;s held in a Days Inn and anyway, no one understands its importance. \u00c2\u00a0The President of Grownups makes sure of that. &#8220;We have new business to get through, people, pay attention!&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0The President of Whether You&#8217;re Paying Attention raps her gavel and frowns. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2574,2575,2576],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-president-of-grownups","tag-the-president-of-internet","tag-the-president-of-whether-youre-paying-attention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}