{"id":1262,"date":"2008-09-12T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:11:48","slug":"the-stupid-it-burns-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/12\/the-stupid-it-burns-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid, It Burns! Literally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/09\/11\/north-texas-house-bu.html\">boggles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A houses in North Texas burned down, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">killing two occupants<\/span>, because the local authorities had switched off the fire-hydrants to stop terrorists from poisoning the water supply through them[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Funny, I read through the original story to make sure the reason for turning the hydrants off was really as claimed by the summary, but I missed the whole no dead people bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Stupid, indeed.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, corrected.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks, Unacoder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One boggles: A houses in North Texas burned down, killing two occupants, because the local authorities had switched off the fire-hydrants to stop terrorists from poisoning the water supply through them[.] Update: Funny, I read through the original story to make sure the reason for turning the hydrants off was really as claimed by 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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}