{"id":1242,"date":"2003-08-14T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/08\/14\/1242\/"},"modified":"2003-08-14T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T23:01:33","slug":"1242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/08\/14\/1242\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/siliconvalley.internet.com\/news\/article.php\/3064291\">Power&#8217;s out in the whole northeast world<\/a>, which, when I heard it, made me really nervous.  I thought they were supposed to get better about this kind of thing!  But then they say in the same article repeatedly that it&#8217;s not terrorism.  So it&#8217;s one of two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s really a power grid screwup, not terrorism.\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s terrorism, they just don&#8217;t want to cause a panic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If it&#8217;s the first, I feel perfectly justified in posting this; if it&#8217;s the second, I will pretend I&#8217;m aiding the effort to keep things calm by relieving the tension with humor.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s big.  It&#8217;s not terrorists.  That really leaves only one possibility, you know?<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedmagic.com\/featured\/spider-man\/electro-3127.html\">Supervillains.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Update 8.15.2003 0839<\/b> hrs:  Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choppingblock.org\/d\/20030815.html\">never mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power&#8217;s out in the whole northeast world, which, when I heard it, made me really nervous. I thought they were supposed to get better about this kind of thing! But then they say in the same article repeatedly that it&#8217;s not terrorism. So it&#8217;s one of two things: It&#8217;s really a power grid screwup, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-lunacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}