{"id":3873,"date":"2006-03-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:57:13","slug":"im-annoyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3873","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m annoyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m annoyed because I have become persuaded, very reluctantly, and slowly and against my habitual will&#8230; I have become persuaded that the attacks on 9\/11 were not perpetrated by Osama Bin Laden, but were instead perpetrated by actors on the inside of the US government.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s annoying because just writing that sentence makes me feel like an absolute lunatic. I feel I&#8217;ve just stepped outside of the acceptable bounds of social discourse; I&#8217;m no longer a reasonable person. Everything I now say and think will be tainted by a sense of &#8216;oh yeah, he&#8217;s that guy who thinks Dick Cheney blew up the twin towers&#8230;&#8217; &#8211; and thus my <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/cluetrain-manifesto.html\">&#8216;voice&#8217;<\/a> is eclipsed.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s annoying because I supported the attack on Iraq, and now I wonder &#8216;have I been had?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/temper-of-truth.html\">you have to pursue the truth, whatever the temper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This line of thought was prompted by viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801\">this video<\/a>, kindly linked for me by <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofsven.co.uk\/weblog\/\">Sven<\/a>, although it had been building for a while. Too many unanswered questions, which <b>need<\/b> answering&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: for what it&#8217;s worth, I no longer believe this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m annoyed because I have become persuaded, very reluctantly, and slowly and against my habitual will&#8230; I have become persuaded that the attacks on 9\/11 were not perpetrated by Osama Bin Laden, but were instead perpetrated by actors on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,20,36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","category-culture","category-islam","category-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-10t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}