{"id":733,"date":"2008-02-26T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2008-02-26T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:27:21","slug":"the-forces-of-ignorance-come-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"The forces of ignorance come calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call from a group that I believe called itself the Protect America Foundation, trying to spread lies about the FISA vote. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t contain my outrage at these people. In retrospect I should have feigned ignorance, and listened to her whole pitch, but I cut her off and told her I wasn&#8217;t interested in approving of phone companies spying on me, which is what she was basically trying to sell. I wonder, though, if I&#8217;d played along, whether she would ever have mentioned the immunity issue. More likely it was going to be a lot of malarkey about Democrats supporting terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>If any of you out there get one of these calls, don&#8217;t be stupid like me. Instead, act stupid and find out what they have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call from a group that I believe called itself the Protect America Foundation, trying to spread lies about the FISA vote. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t contain my outrage at these people. In retrospect I should have feigned ignorance, and listened to her whole pitch, but I cut her off and told her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creeping-totalitarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}