{"id":187283,"date":"2013-04-19T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/19\/this-is-not-the-onion-5\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:52:00","slug":"this-is-not-the-onion-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/19\/this-is-not-the-onion-5\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that guy who is alleged to have mailed ricin laced letters to Obama and Congresscritters?<\/p>\n<p>Wanna guess what his day job is?<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/mississippi-elvis-impersonator-charged-with-sending-poisoned-mail\">an Elvis impersonator<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An Elvis impersonator named Paul Kevin Curtis who lives in Corinth Mississippi was charged Thursday for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wiker (R-MS), and a judge in Lee County Mississippi. Court documents released by the Department of Justice show Curtis was charged with one count of sending a letter &#8220;containing threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States&#8221; and a count of sending a letter &#8220;containing a threat to injure the person of others.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are living in <b>very<\/b> strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that guy who is alleged to have mailed ricin laced letters to Obama and Congresscritters? Wanna guess what his day job is? He was an Elvis impersonator: An Elvis impersonator named Paul Kevin Curtis who lives in Corinth Mississippi was charged Thursday for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1052,1065,1104,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-crimes","category-entertainment","category-psychology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187283"}],"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=187283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}