{"id":508,"date":"2002-08-02T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2013-10-16T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T03:14:17","slug":"vote-with-your-tectonic-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"vote with your tectonic plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/789040.asp\">GPS sparks boundary wars<\/a>.  New measurements tell Rhode Islanders that they live in Connecticut, and so on.  (Thanks to Monty Solomon for the link.)  If it were a question of private property, I believe the rule of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adverse_possession\">adverse possession<\/a> would decide in favor of the occupants.  But in matters of Government one can&#8217;t allow common sense, or such trifles as the reasonable expectations of the people affected, to get in the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPS sparks boundary wars. New measurements tell Rhode Islanders that they live in Connecticut, and so on. (Thanks to Monty Solomon for the link.) If it were a question of private property, I believe the rule of adverse possession would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}