{"id":187623,"date":"2011-04-24T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/24\/and-in-the-world-of-the-surreal\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:03:00","slug":"and-in-the-world-of-the-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/24\/and-in-the-world-of-the-surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"And In the World of the Surreal\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"395\" \/>The CIA is <a href=\"http:\/\/idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/04\/the-cia-gets-power-by-shredding-and-burning-classified-documents.php\">touting its green credentials by revealing that they generate heat by burning shredded documents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">A press release from the CIA explains that their &#8220;burn after reading&#8221; practice conserves energy because the exhaust from their incinerator generates steam to heat water at CIA headquarters. Says the CIA:<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #660000;\"><p>In addition to saving fuel, that process reduces the amount of waste&#8211;which would otherwise be destined for landfills&#8211;by nearly 1,000 tons per year. The CIA increases its recycling efforts each year, annually collecting over three tons of plastic, glass, cardboard, aluminum, construction debris, and other waste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I dunno, I find this kind of \u2026\u2026 odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA is touting its green credentials by revealing that they generate heat by burning shredded documents: A press release from the CIA explains that their &#8220;burn after reading&#8221; practice conserves energy because the exhaust from their incinerator generates steam to heat water at CIA headquarters. Says the CIA: In addition to saving fuel, that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1010,1079,1062,1102,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-espionage","category-intelligence","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187623"}],"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=187623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}