{"id":946,"date":"2011-02-22T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtom.wordpress.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2011-02-22T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:45:06","slug":"united_states_of_shame_and_awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/united_states_of_shame_and_awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States of Shame \/ The United States of Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I posted a map of <a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/07\/the-united-states-of-autocomplete\/\">The United States of\u00a0Autocomplete<\/a>. I now present you with two new interpretations of a map of the US. These are the things states are the worst at (from <a href=\"http:\/\/pleated-jeans.com\/2011\/01\/24\/the-united-states-of-shame-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\">pleated jeans<\/a>) and what your state does really well (from <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyagerner.tumblr.com\/post\/2949172565\/maps\" target=\"_blank\">Political Language<\/a>). I&#8217;m a born and bred <del>Masshole<\/del> Massachusett and I am guilty\/proud of embodying both what Mass is worst at (bad driving) and what Mass is good at (college graduates).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/the-united-states-of-shame.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-947\" title=\"The-United-States-of-Shame\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/the-united-states-of-shame.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/tumblr_lfnpakegbp1qd0p40o1_r1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-948\" title=\"tumblr_lfnpakEGBp1qd0p40o1_r1_1280\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/tumblr_lfnpakegbp1qd0p40o1_r1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"542\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to see how some of them match.<\/p>\n<p>NY (clearly influenced by NYC): Worst Daily Commute = Awesome Transit Use.<br \/>\nUtah: Most\u00a0Liberalized\u00a0Prostitution Laws =\u00a0Worst Crime<br \/>\nNorth Carolina: Worst Teacher Salaries = Best Value University<br \/>\nMichigan: Best Freshwater Access = Highest Unemployment<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/01\/30\/what-your-state-is-the-worst-at-united-states-of-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlowingData<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I posted a map of The United States of\u00a0Autocomplete. I now present you with two new interpretations of a map of the US. These are the things states are the worst at (from pleated jeans) and what your state does really well (from Political Language). I&#8217;m a born and bred Masshole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}