{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "it is interesting, having lived for a while in LA among a huge Persian expat/immigrant community that was normal modern-worlders...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/617057018514128896/", "html": "<p>it is interesting, having lived for a while in LA among a huge Persian expat/immigrant community that was normal modern-worlders like anyone, who would fly back for holidays and roll their eyes like <i>::oh yeah, the gOvErNmEnT::</i> the same way as anyone in California was already re:Washington, <br/></p><p>to look back and realize the rest of the country is still really going off the continuation-forward of late-70s narratives about an area we had a quarter-ass romanticized grasp of in the 19th century and then halfheartedly updated our sense of in the World Wars<br/></p>\n<img src=\"/media/4713748823437d947ba290e7f2a99385d77e977b_0d0720bb3567.jpg\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/4713748823437d947ba290e7f2a99385d77e977b_0d0720bb3567.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 719, "thumbnail_height": 875}