{"id":1338,"date":"2014-09-08T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2014-09-08T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:50:26","slug":"finally-interactive-map-showing-relative-popularity-dogs-vs-cats-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/finally-interactive-map-showing-relative-popularity-dogs-vs-cats-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally&#8230;an interactive map showing relative popularity of dogs vs. cats in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/finally-interactive-map-showing-relative-popularity-dogs-vs-cats-u-s\/\" data-text=\"Finally&#038;%238230;an interactive map showing relative popularity of dogs vs. cats in the U.S.\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>This is coverage you count on&#8230;brought to you by&#8230;take a guess. \u00a0National Enquirer? \u00a0People Magazine? \u00a0Cosmo? <em>\u00a0Wrong!<\/em> \u00a0Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/07\/28\/where-cats-are-more-popular-than-dogs-in-the-u-s-and-all-over-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Wonkblog, I give you &#8220;Where Cats Are More Popular Than Dogs In The U.S. &#8211; And All Over The World&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Interactive map I promised you is at the link. \u00a0Somebody&#8217;s got to get the word out, so not fair for me to blame the messenger. \u00a0People (like me) are blogging about it and linking it, so I guess <em>Mission Accomplished<\/em>. \u00a0Anyhoo&#8230;what&#8217;s your guess as to who&#8217;s the most popular? \u00a0SPOILER ALERT! \u00a0Turns out it&#8217;s pretty close to even steven everywhere, at least in the U.S. \u00a0Europe is another story. \u00a0They like their cats over there because they are so&#8230;European.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, who is more popular with Baby Elephants?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sm4oH-CSaEM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story? \u00a0Do not mess with a baby elephant unless you want the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FWBUl7oT9sA\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Python Treatment.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This is coverage you count on&#8230;brought to you by&#8230;take a guess. \u00a0National Enquirer? \u00a0People Magazine? \u00a0Cosmo? \u00a0Wrong! \u00a0Via the Washington Post Wonkblog, I give you &#8220;Where Cats Are More Popular Than Dogs In The U.S. &#8211; And All Over The World&#8221;. \u00a0Interactive map I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}