{"id":190391,"date":"2026-10-13T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=190391"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:25:21","slug":"postcard-from-the-invisible-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/postcard-from-the-invisible-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Invisible Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2026\/10\/13\/fun-with-primary-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent discussion<\/a> at Severian&#8217;s place reminded me of an old story by Joseph Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1939\/01\/14\/downfall-of-fascism-in-black-ankle-county\" target=\"_blank\">The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discussion at Severian&#8217;s place reminded me of an old story by Joseph Mitchell. The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","category-words"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NwP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190392,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190391\/revisions\/190392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}