{"id":6789,"date":"2003-05-05T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/05\/6789\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:30:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:30:44","slug":"6789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/05\/6789\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo from the Department of Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the commissioners of the <b>Federal Trade Commission<\/b> is named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/bios\/commissioners.htm\" target=\"new\">Swindle<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In his column on CNet, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2010-1071_3-999561.html?tag=fd_nc_1\" target=\"new\">Declan McCullagh<\/a> says it with a straight face, his accompanying photo depicting his normal look of concern that indicates he fully agrees with Ridley Scott&#8217;s <i>Blade Runner<\/i> vision of the future, starting about 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Me, on the other hand, I cannot.  Orson Swindle!  Orson Swindle!  Haw haw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission is named Swindle? In his column on CNet, Declan McCullagh says it with a straight face, his accompanying photo depicting his normal look of concern that indicates he fully agrees with Ridley Scott&#8217;s Blade Runner vision of the future, starting about 2007. Me, on the other [&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-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","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=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}