{"id":2411,"date":"2003-02-10T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=249"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:25:20","slug":"emperor-norton-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/10\/emperor-norton-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Norton I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zpluspartners.com\/about5.html\">Andrew Zolli<\/a>, in his guestblog on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">Boing boing<\/a>, writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/text\/2003_02_02_guestbar.html#90296793\">Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico<\/a> (with photos and links):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although few history books mention his name, in the mid-1800&#8217;s Joshua Abraham Norton proclaimed himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Indulged by the local populace, Norton ate free in the best restaurants, which accepted his &#8216;currency&#8217;. During his reign, he issued a steady stream of proclamations, in which (among many other things) he abolished the Congress, called for the building of the Bay Bridge, and banished the F-word (&#8220;Frisco&#8221;) from polite speech.<\/p>\n<p>Though a complete loon, he was beloved by San Franciscans during his time, and more than 30,000 people attended his funeral. Fittingly, no quote marks or other explanatory notes mark his epitaph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Zolli, in his guestblog on Boing boing, writes about Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico (with photos and links): Although few history books mention his name, in the mid-1800&#8217;s Joshua Abraham Norton proclaimed himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. &#8230; Indulged by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-CT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}