{"id":181767,"date":"2016-03-22T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/22\/no-7\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:29:00","slug":"no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/22\/no-7\/","title":{"rendered":"No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Slane asks, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblogmire.com\/is-putin-weaponising-stupidity\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity<\/span><\/b>?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Putin isn&#8217;t taking weaponizing stupidity, as Mr. Slane notes, &#8220;It could just be a case that we really are run by ignorant buffoons who  never learn, and even if Mr Putin were inclined to develop a way of <i>Weaponising Stupidity<\/i>, he\u2019d actually be wasting his time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a nice theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Slane asks, &#8220;Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity?&#8220; Putin isn&#8217;t taking weaponizing stupidity, as Mr. Slane notes, &#8220;It could just be a case that we really are run by ignorant buffoons who never learn, and even if Mr Putin were inclined to develop a way of Weaponising Stupidity, he\u2019d actually be wasting his time.&#8221; Still, it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1002,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-good-writing","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}