{"id":12064,"date":"2007-11-27T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/27\/balkanized-north-america.html"},"modified":"2007-11-27T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:03:30","slug":"balkanized_north_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/balkanized_north_america.html","title":{"rendered":"Balkanized North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

By just tweaking a few historical facts, here’s a “fun” map of a North America that is no longer just two nations<\/a> (three if you count Mexico), but a good dozen-and-a-half.<\/p>\n

Good grist for an alternate history novel, at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By just tweaking a few historical facts, here’s a “fun” map of a North America that is no longer just two nations (three if you count Mexico), but a good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics-law","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9328,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/money_trivia.html","url_meta":{"origin":12064,"position":0},"title":"Money Trivia","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-06 10:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"What are the official currencies found in North America?\u00a0 (Consider that as Mexico north, and excluding the Caribbean.) 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