{"id":14477,"date":"2014-12-30T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:29:17","slug":"conspiracy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/12\/30\/conspiracy-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"conspiracy moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/the_interview_a_black_ops_prod.html\">Oregonian letter to the editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Interview&#8217;:\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m probably not the only one who won&#8217;t be surprised if in a year or so it&#8217;s discovered that &#8220;The Interview&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0hullabaloo turns out to have been a colossal publicity stunt. Perhaps Seth Rogen blurted out, &#8220;What if we pretend North Korea threatened us? LOL,&#8221; and an eavesdropping CIA zealot loved the idea. Presto! &#8220;Black Ops&#8221; takes over and another lame-brained conspiracy is born.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This makes more sense than the movie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tamara Stromquist of Sherwood<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As conspiracy theories go, this one is weird.\u00c2\u00a0 We have the national security state deciding to promote the film just for kicks, off of an off-hand joke by the film makers.\u00c2\u00a0 The Giant octopus apparatus is just in it for the lols.<\/p>\n<p>As for the last sentence&#8230; well, it&#8217;s supposed to be silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregonian letter to the editor. &#8216;The Interview&#8217;:\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m probably not the only one who won&#8217;t be surprised if in a year or so it&#8217;s discovered that &#8220;The Interview&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0hullabaloo turns out to have been a colossal publicity stunt. Perhaps Seth Rogen blurted out, &#8220;What if we pretend North Korea threatened us? LOL,&#8221; and an eavesdropping CIA zealot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14478,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions\/14478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}