{"id":35003,"date":"2005-07-07T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/07\/07\/what-struck-me-about-life-in-the-republic\/"},"modified":"2005-07-07T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T10:00:11","slug":"what-struck-me-about-life-in-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050707-11\/?p=35003","title":{"rendered":"What struck me about life in the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> When people asked me for my reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie, I replied that what struck me most was that the Republic doesn&#8217;t appear to have any building codes. There are these platforms several hundred meters above the ground with <strong>no railings<\/strong>. For example, Padm&eacute; Amidala&#8217;s fancy apartment has a front porch far above the ground. Consider: You&#8217;re carrying a load of packages to the car, the kids are running around, you turn around to yell at one of them, miss a step, and over the rim you go. How many people fall to their deaths in that galaxy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people asked me for my reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie, I replied that what struck me most was that the Republic doesn&#8217;t appear to have any building codes. There are these platforms several hundred meters above the ground with no railings. For example, Padm&eacute; Amidala&#8217;s fancy apartment has a front porch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-35003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When people asked me for my reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie, I replied that what struck me most was that the Republic doesn&#8217;t appear to have any building codes. There are these platforms several hundred meters above the ground with no railings. For example, Padm&eacute; Amidala&#8217;s fancy apartment has a front porch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}