{"id":2500,"date":"2007-12-01T06:15:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2007-12-01T06:15:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:15:36","slug":"joining-the-squirearchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Squirearchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must offer my profound thanks to <strong>Shane Deichman<\/strong>, Esquire of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oz.deichman.net\/\"><strong>Wizards of Oz<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iatgr.org\/default.htm\">IATGR<\/a><\/strong>. On the strength of his recommendation, I, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"299\" src=\"http:\/\/my.en.com\/~vincem\/zpix\/wash1.jpg\" height=\"360\" \/><strong>Mark the<\/strong> <strong>Zenpundit,<\/strong> have been admitted to the august ranks of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotglass.co.uk\/html\/squires.html\">Tennesse Squire Association<\/a><\/strong>, sponsored by the honorable and venerable\u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jackdaniels.com\/age.aspx\">Jack\u00a0Daniels Distillery<\/a>, <\/strong>maker of America&#8217;s finest spirits. I am at once humbled and bursting with aristocratic presence.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, I will put on no airs due to my new rank of Squire, though I may quietly lobby for a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baronet\">baronetcy<\/a> from the British Crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must offer my profound thanks to Shane Deichman, Esquire of Wizards of Oz and IATGR. On the strength of his recommendation, I, Mark the Zenpundit, have been admitted to the august ranks of the Tennesse Squire Association, sponsored by the honorable and venerable\u00a0Jack\u00a0Daniels Distillery, maker of America&#8217;s finest spirits. I am at once humbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,128,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-personal","category-wizards-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}