{"id":1043,"date":"2014-08-09T22:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-08-13T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:52:21","slug":"if-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"If You Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; 9\/11 was an inside job<br \/>\n&#8230; Obama was not born in Hawaii, despite a birth announcement in the Honolulu Star Bulletin<br \/>\n&#8230; the 2nd Amendment was written to ensure that poorly endowed men could carry assault weapons around children<br \/>\n&#8230; the 1st Amendment means you can&#8217;t get fired for calling your boss an asshole<br \/>\n&#8230; science is a conspiracy (i.e. global warming, mass extinctions, evolution, vaccination, etc. are liberal conspiracies)<br \/>\n&#8230; the Nazi Party was &#8220;Left Wing&#8221; because its name contained the word &#8220;Socialist&#8221;  (fun fact: the official names for several Warsaw Pact nations, China, and North Korea all contained the word &#8220;Democratic&#8221;)<br \/>\n&#8230; you, personally, will survive a destruction of society (ala, you are a &#8220;Doomsday Prepper&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>then your attachment to reality is too tenuous for you to engage me in a discussion on politics or science.  Please do not ever broach either subject to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe that: &#8230; 9\/11 was an inside job &#8230; Obama was not born in Hawaii, despite a birth announcement in the Honolulu Star Bulletin &#8230; the 2nd Amendment was written to ensure that poorly endowed men could carry assault weapons around children &#8230; the 1st Amendment means you can&#8217;t get fired for calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crackpots","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}