{"id":6884,"date":"2025-02-13T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:27:31","slug":"gulf-of-mexico-forever-and-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/gulf-of-mexico-forever-and-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf of Mexico forever and ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-6894 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-300x300.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-300x300.png\" alt=\"Gulf of Mexico art cards, ready to mail\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/art_cards_tgreen.png 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One of the more ridiculous things the current administration has done is to &#8220;rename&#8221; long-standing geographic features to his liking. Denali was reverted to the hated name of the former president who never set foot on its slopes, and, inexplicably, the Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of &#8220;America.&#8221; Another renaming involving a mediocre white dude who never saw its waters by a current mediocre white dude. Sensing a theme? Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a neighbor recently threw out a bunch of maps, so I ripped out the relevant sections and made post cards, as one does, and offered to mail them to whomever wants one as a act of&#8230;I don&#8217;t know, art rebellion? Record keeping? A guardian of memory?<\/p>\n<p>I still have a few. Email me at&#8221; weshouldkeepintouch @ gmail .com&#8221; and I&#8217;ll ship it off. USA residents only as my stamps don&#8217;t extend to international delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LaCa, yours is already on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more ridiculous things the current administration has done is to &#8220;rename&#8221; long-standing geographic features to his liking. Denali was reverted to the hated name of the former president who never set foot on its slopes, and, inexplicably, the Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of &#8220;America.&#8221; Another renaming involving a mediocre white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-gulf-of-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}