{"id":129230,"date":"2022-08-19T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129230"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:35:07","slug":"weekend-open-thread-408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129230","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?resize=300%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?resize=500%2C263&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-West-owes-Baghdad-Bob-an-apology-for-calling-him-a-bullshitter-after-Merrick-Garlands-testimony.jpg?w=952&amp;ssl=1 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember watching &#8220;Wag the Dog&#8221; when it showed in theaters. Folks filmed staged events, then tried to sell these events as real-world events. The set up was obvious to the audience, the reporting on the set up was obviously nonsense. Tragically, when this is being playing out for real, many people want to believe the nonsense because they disagree with the politics of the one that is the target of false narratives. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching &#8220;Wag the Dog&#8221; when it showed in theaters. Folks filmed staged events, then tried to sell these events as real-world events. The set up was obvious to the audience, the reporting on the set up was obviously nonsense. Tragically, when this is being playing out for real, many people want to believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-xCm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}