{"id":2180,"date":"2026-03-16T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:41:36","slug":"the-mad-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/16\/the-mad-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can currently observe the fall of an empire, triggered by its mad king.<\/p>\n<p>And we can watch the rise of a new empire.<\/p>\n<p>Just like on the History Channel, but with real mass casualties.<\/p>\n<p>And as the king tumbles toward the abyss, he&#8217;s followed by our hapless government, pleading fealty and dragging Europe with them.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any adults left in the room?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_20260307_155545-2048x1037.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feminist Alleycat, Cologne, 3\/7\/26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can currently observe the fall of an empire, triggered by its mad king. And we can watch the rise of a new empire. Just like on the History Channel, but with real mass casualties. And as the king tumbles toward the abyss, he&#8217;s followed by our hapless government, pleading fealty and dragging Europe with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/16\/the-mad-king\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mad King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-za","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}