{"id":187974,"date":"2011-01-10T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/10\/ok-i-dont-have-much-to-add-on-the-assassination-and-shooting-spree\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:59:00","slug":"ok-i-dont-have-much-to-add-on-the-assassination-and-shooting-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/10\/ok-i-dont-have-much-to-add-on-the-assassination-and-shooting-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I Don&#8217;t Have Much to Add on the Assassination and Shooting Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img257.imageshack.us\/img257\/9040\/6a00e551f0800388340148c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img257.imageshack.us\/img257\/9040\/6a00e551f0800388340148c.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">These are on the days <b>preceding<\/b> the shooting<\/span><\/div>\n<p>But Brad Delong <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2011\/01\/i-would-very-much-like-an-alternative-explanation-of-this.html\">finds a rather alarming data point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two members of Congress, both Democrats, from the same state, but in the 4 days before the shooting, Gifford&#8217;s hits on her wiki page skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of caveats here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even with the delta, the number is pretty small, under 400 hits peak over a 4 day period.<\/li>\n<li>This could have been triggered by something as innocent as a mass email to constituents.<\/li>\n<li>It could be one person, obsessively visiting the page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It could also be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The result of some obscure right wing media figure calling her out.<\/li>\n<li>The result of a small group of people involved in a conspiracy. (Unlikely, this seems to be the archetypal Lone Gunman).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone aware of any event that might support some the more prosaic explanations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size These are on the days preceding the shooting But Brad Delong finds a rather alarming data point. Here are two members of Congress, both Democrats, from the same state, but in the 4 days before the shooting, Gifford&#8217;s hits on her wiki page skyrocketed. There are a number of caveats here: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133,997,978,992,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-internet","category-politics","category-statistics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187974"}],"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=187974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}