{"id":218,"date":"2007-01-31T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/31\/is-it-absurd-enough-yet\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T16:07:15","slug":"is-it-absurd-enough-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/31\/is-it-absurd-enough-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it absurd enough, yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/city_region\/breaking_news\/2007\/01\/suspicious_pack_1.html\">Boston&#8217;s mistaking a cartoon promotion for a terrorist threat<\/a> gives us two choices:<\/p>\n<p>1) we can realize how utterly ridiculous it is to treat everything under the sun as a &#8220;security threat&#8221; or<\/p>\n<p>2) we can sharpen our pitchforks, light our torches, and start looking for witches.  Any bets on which way it&#8217;ll go?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>(For those who haven&#8217;t seen them yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vanderlin\/tags\/aquateenhungerforce\/\">these<\/a> are the &#8220;suspicious devices&#8221; that shut down one of our busiest (and generally very smart) cities.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xoverboard.com\/blogarchive\/week_2007_01_28.html#002026\">shocker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Boston&#8217;s mistaking a cartoon promotion for a terrorist threat gives us two choices: 1) we can realize how utterly ridiculous it is to treat everything under the sun as a &#8220;security threat&#8221; or 2) we can sharpen our pitchforks, light our torches, and start looking for witches. Any bets on which way it&#8217;ll go? [&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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}