{"id":3280,"date":"2020-11-07T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2020-11-07T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T14:30:33","slug":"seven-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/07\/seven-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I guess that today is free-write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is my mother&#8217;s birthday, so happy birthday to her.  I will call her later on, see if her gifts arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s listen is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thaddeusrussell.com\/podcast\/138\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m very much enjoying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I did have some things I&#8217;d planned to write about this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/election-misinformation-protest-maricopa-arizona-trump-social-media-twitter-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">this <\/a>come across my email feed over the past couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It made me angry, and I was having flashbacks to seeing this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=1898\" target=\"_blank\">talk <\/a>at Shmoocon a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compounding on it was something I noticed on one of the local news last night that plays along with the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President made these claims <em><strong>without evidence<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You spent how many years basically reporting the Steele Dossier?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, we got the information from several sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, but you didn&#8217;t have any evidence, either.  You just had five people all saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now you&#8217;ve added that commentary after a politician&#8217;s words, and you&#8217;re now covered?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.  Fuck you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, of course, had started thumbing together a long list of compaints to cobble together into a long Karenesque letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, no, I&#8217;m not going to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My problem is that I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s even possible anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that today is free-write. Today is my mother&#8217;s birthday, so happy birthday to her. I will call her later on, see if her gifts arrived. Today&#8217;s listen is this. I&#8217;m very much enjoying it. But I did have some things I&#8217;d planned to write about this morning. I had this come across my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}