{"id":16187,"date":"2021-11-17T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T23:17:51","slug":"meritocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16187","title":{"rendered":"Meritocracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2693.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=16171\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2693.jpeg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2693\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2693.jpeg?fit=1024%2C2046&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2693.jpeg?resize=509%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16171\" width=\"509\" height=\"382\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cYour faith that American society is a meritocracy is probably directly proportional to how close you are to the top.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jim Geraghty NR<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour faith that American society is a meritocracy is probably directly proportional to how close you are to the top.\u201d Jim Geraghty NR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[372,61],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-simon-says","tag-jim-geraghty","tag-maxim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2693.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4d5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16188,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions\/16188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}