{"id":1517,"date":"2008-02-11T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2008-02-11T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:44:08","slug":"the-root-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"The Root of All Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Marine goes off to war.\n<\/li>\n<li>He is injured in an explosion.  He spends 13 weeks in the hospital recovering.\n<\/li>\n<li>In the explosion, he personally witnesses his best friend&#8217;s decapitation.\n<\/li>\n<li>His injuries are extensive enough that he is granted medical retirement.\n<\/li>\n<li>He returns home to the states, where he begins hallucinating and having flashbacks.\n<\/li>\n<li>Sitting at home playing Call of Duty 4, he suddenly gets up, leaves the house, goes on a motorcycle ride and disappears.  His motorcycle is found along the side of the road sometime later.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what headline is the story under?<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,330225,00.html\">Missing Ex-Marine&#8217;s Family Says Video Game May Have Sparked Disappearance<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  The videogame.  I&#8217;m sure that was the problem.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>LATER:<\/strong> I&#8217;d closed comments because I was just sure there would be that one guy who couldn&#8217;t resist using this post as a launching post for talking about The War.  I&#8217;ve reconsidered, but please do observe the no politics policy.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>LATER STILL:<\/strong> Link fixed.  Duh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see: A Marine goes off to war. He is injured in an explosion. He spends 13 weeks in the hospital recovering. In the explosion, he personally witnesses his best friend&#8217;s decapitation. His injuries are extensive enough that he is granted medical retirement. He returns home to the states, where he begins hallucinating and having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}