{"id":195782,"date":"2008-06-13T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/omfg-this-is-so-lame\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T23:11:00","slug":"omfg-this-is-so-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/omfg-this-is-so-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"OMFG!!!  This is So Lame!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bloch, the  head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, who had a computer consultant wipe his hard drive, and whose office was raided by the FBI with accusations of abuse of authority, retaliation, political bias, and obstruction of justice, now has a new title Sock Puppet<sup>*<\/sup> by Proxy.  It appears that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/dailyfed\/0608\/061308cdam1.htm\">ordered subordinates to post stuff supporting him on blogs when they posted bad news about him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is so incredibly pathetic.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Full disclosure, I&#8217;ve sock puppeted.   I acknowledge that this means that I have no personal credibility.  Confirm what I write by going to the links I cite, and reviewing my arguments.  Seriously.  FWIW, I&#8217;ll try not to sock puppet in my own comments section.  I haven&#8217;t yet. <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if I say the sky is blue, go check the Weather Channel to confirm this.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bloch, the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, who had a computer consultant wipe his hard drive, and whose office was raided by the FBI with accusations of abuse of authority, retaliation, political bias, and obstruction of justice, now has a new title Sock Puppet* by Proxy. It appears that he ordered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195782"}],"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=195782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}