{"id":4395,"date":"2008-04-29T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:16:00","slug":"ill-portents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/ill-portents\/","title":{"rendered":"Ill Portents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember the last time the media got hopped up on a shark frenzy?  Summer 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s an election year, and maybe I&#8217;m just on a hair trigger for my normal paranoia, but when I start hearing about the sharks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1735577,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">ramping up their attacks<\/a>, I&#8217;m suddenly worried about what effect a mass casualty attack would have on American soil right before the elections.<\/p>\n<p>The truthers taking to the streets claiming Bush did it to stay in power, and maybe Bush even tries a Guiliani &#8220;I need to stay in power a little longer to handle it&#8221; attempt, and suddenly&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, use your fetid imagination if you&#8217;ve got one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember the last time the media got hopped up on a shark frenzy? Summer 2001. Now it&#8217;s an election year, and maybe I&#8217;m just on a hair trigger for my normal paranoia, but when I start hearing about the sharks ramping up their attacks, I&#8217;m suddenly worried about what effect a mass casualty attack [&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-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/17340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}