{"id":566,"date":"2003-05-18T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/566"},"modified":"2003-05-18T00:23:42","modified_gmt":"2003-05-17T19:23:42","slug":"doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/566","title":{"rendered":"Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hestiant to say this out loud, but ever since I started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/dear_raed.blogspot.com\">Salam Pax&#8217;s<\/a> blog, my internal bullshit meter kept dipping into the red.  I&#8217;ve seen too many elaborate hoaxes in my 10 years on the internet, not the least of which was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=kaycee+nicole\">Kaycee Nicole<\/a> debacle.  <\/p>\n<p>Recently several blogs have voiced their doubts publicly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerlsimon.com\/archives\/00000134.htm\">Roger Simon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=6654_Salam_Pax_Plays_Americans_for_Fools\">LGF<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkyardblog.blogspot.com\/2003_05_11_junkyardblog_archive.html#200284973\">Junkyard Blog<\/a>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/25826\">thread on MeFi<\/a>.  I&#8217;m glad to know that I&#8217;m not reading the only one with nagging doubts.  The blog is interesting to read, but is it true?  The world may never know, but if Salam Pax suddenly &#8220;dies&#8221;, I think that will cinch it for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hestiant to say this out loud, but ever since I started reading Salam Pax&#8217;s blog, my internal bullshit meter kept dipping into the red. I&#8217;ve seen too many elaborate hoaxes in my 10 years on the internet, not the least of which was the Kaycee Nicole debacle. Recently several blogs have voiced their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}