{"id":38823,"date":"2013-10-02T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38823"},"modified":"2013-10-02T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T20:33:30","slug":"if-i-were-paranoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38823","title":{"rendered":"If I <i>Were<\/i> Paranoid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I&#8217;d look at the deaths of Vince Flynn and now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/tom-clancy-dead-celebrated-thriller-141800682.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CQVLExSLHAAslHQtDMD\">Tom Clancy <\/a>within a few months of each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and connect it with all the other top-secret hanky-panky with the NSA, the IRS and the Justice Department&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and figure there&#8217;s a government conspiracy to knock off conservativsm&#8217;s few iconic pop-culture figures.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I&#8217;m not paranoid, huh?<\/p>\n<p>(Just in case, though?\u00a0 Be careful, Gary Sinise, Ted Nugent, Joe Perry, Tom Selleck, Fred Thompson and Angie Harmon).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2013\/10\/02\/tom-clancy-rip\/\">Steven Green<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;Is it really possible that Larry King, who\u2019s looked like day-old scrambled eggs for thirty years, outlived Tom Clancy? Stranger things have happened, but this one I\u2019m taking a little personally. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I&#8217;d look at the deaths of Vince Flynn and now\u00a0Tom Clancy within a few months of each other&#8230; &#8230;and connect it with all the other top-secret hanky-panky with the NSA, the IRS and the Justice Department&#8230; &#8230;and figure there&#8217;s a government conspiracy to knock off conservativsm&#8217;s few iconic pop-culture figures. Good thing I&#8217;m not paranoid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38823"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38838,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions\/38838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}