{"id":67487,"date":"2018-07-24T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67487"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:43:28","slug":"pro-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67487","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read a report of a hate crime, and it doesn&#8217;t involve unrelated witnesses, much less actual physical presence (to say nothing of physical contact), assume its a hoax first, then verify.<\/p>\n<p>And, on verifying, almost invariably congratulate yourself on not being fooled!<\/p>\n<p>I did that with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/07\/23\/server-faked-we-dont-tip-terrorist-note\/824027002\/\">this story<\/a>.  And most every one like it in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s served me well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read a report of a hate crime, and it doesn&#8217;t involve unrelated witnesses, much less actual physical presence (to say nothing of physical contact), assume its a hoax first, then verify. And, on verifying, almost invariably congratulate yourself on not being fooled! I did that with this story. And most every one like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,79,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america","category-slander-files","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487","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=67487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67488,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487\/revisions\/67488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}