{"id":1124,"date":"2008-08-14T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2008-08-14T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T02:52:42","slug":"i-want-to-believe-flat-earthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/14\/i-want-to-believe-flat-earthers\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Believe: Flat Earthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/7540427.stm\">This BBC story<\/a> on the Flat Earth Society brought to mind the Virginia blogosphere &#8211; so many people who hold ridiclous beliefs with apparent sincerity.\u00c2\u00a0 If they&#8217;re sincere, well, I can&#8217;t help but pity them.\u00c2\u00a0 But if they&#8217;re just being intentionally obtuse . . . I sort of want to kick them out of the public conversation entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This BBC story on the Flat Earth Society brought to mind the Virginia blogosphere &#8211; so many people who hold ridiclous beliefs with apparent sincerity.\u00c2\u00a0 If they&#8217;re sincere, well, I can&#8217;t help but pity them.\u00c2\u00a0 But if they&#8217;re just being intentionally obtuse . . . I sort of want to kick them out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}