{"id":171,"date":"2018-12-23T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-12-23T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:02:26","slug":"gaussian-roulette-or-the-millennium-of-the-malice-of-the-malcontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/23\/gaussian-roulette-or-the-millennium-of-the-malice-of-the-malcontents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaussian Roulette, Or The Millennium of the Malice of the Malcontents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going postal has been enfranchised, technologically &#8220;empowered.&#8221; Now anyone with a grievance, righteous or wrongful, can register his displeasure with a vengeance, on a scale unprecedented, unimagined. Jilted? Blow up her wedding party. Underpaid? Sprinkle Eboli in their staff canteen. Overtaxed? Cyber-raid the IRS&#8217;s pantry. Losing Pascal&#8217;s Wager? Post Polonium-210 to the infidels (and anyone else along the paper trail). And if all else fails, or you&#8217;re in an especial rush, strap on a boom-belt and take out the nearest crowd. &#8216;At&#8217;ll teach &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going postal has been enfranchised, technologically &#8220;empowered.&#8221; Now anyone with a grievance, righteous or wrongful, can register his displeasure with a vengeance, on a scale unprecedented, unimagined. Jilted? Blow up her wedding party. Underpaid? Sprinkle Eboli in their staff canteen. Overtaxed? Cyber-raid the IRS&#8217;s pantry. Losing Pascal&#8217;s Wager? Post Polonium-210 to the infidels (and anyone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/23\/gaussian-roulette-or-the-millennium-of-the-malice-of-the-malcontents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaussian Roulette, Or The Millennium of the Malice of the Malcontents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}