{"id":3703,"date":"2007-04-18T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:05:29","slug":"someones-taking-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/someones-taking-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone&#8217;s Taking Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/P\/PET_FOOD_RECALL?SITE=MOSTP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_new\">pet food recall expands again<\/a>, do you think anyone is noting how a tainted raw food material can spread death throughout North America after being processed locally?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if this were a Tom Clancy novel, first, the foreign power would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/articles\/2007\/04\/17\/71589\" target=\"_new\">kill all the bees<\/a> to limit continental agriculture and force food producers to buy from abroad, and then the foreign power would poison a root agricultural product that would be distributed to a number of plants for processing into a number of different food products.  Because the raw ingredient would be made into a number of different things, investigators would have trouble identifying a single cause when people started dying.  When thousands were dead, civil order would break down and the main portion of the novel would commence.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I wanted to be a writer.  To channel my paranoia into profitable pursuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the recent pet food recall expands again, do you think anyone is noting how a tainted raw food material can spread death throughout North America after being processed locally? I mean, if this were a Tom Clancy novel, first, the foreign power would kill all the bees to limit continental agriculture and force food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18145,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/18145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}