{"id":38323,"date":"2022-12-31T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=38323"},"modified":"2022-12-29T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:43:25","slug":"george-the-pirate-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=38323","title":{"rendered":"George the Pirate King"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2364\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-38323-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/georgethepirateking.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/georgethepirateking.mp3\">https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/georgethepirateking.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>George was a pirate, but he wasn&#8217;t a very good pirate.<br \/>\nThe Peter Principle states that individuals rise to the level that best fits their incompetence.<br \/>\nWhich means that George would rise within the pirate bureaucracy to the title of Pirate King.<br \/>\nExcept that there is no pirate bureaucracy. Or Pirate King.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s just pirate ships, captains of those ships, and pirates.<br \/>\nAnd occasionally a First Mate or some other second-in-command while the captain&#8217;s asleep or unavailable.<br \/>\nWhen George sleeps, he dreams of being Pirate King.<br \/>\nSitting on a golden throne, and never having to swab the deck ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George was a pirate, but he wasn&#8217;t a very good pirate. The Peter Principle states that individuals rise to the level that best fits their incompetence. Which means that George would rise within the pirate bureaucracy to the title of Pirate King. Except that there is no pirate bureaucracy. Or Pirate King. There&#8217;s just pirate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=38323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George the Pirate King&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-stories","category-talk-like-a-pirate-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38329,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions\/38329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}