{"id":26596,"date":"2024-06-29T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26596"},"modified":"2024-06-29T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T22:47:57","slug":"mickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26596","title":{"rendered":"Mickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose I were the government of a very large country on the other side of the world, and I wanted to influence the outcome of the next US presidential election. One particular tactic might be very effective, and as that  government I would certainly have the wherewithal to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>I could simply arrange for someone to slip one of the candidates a mickey just before the debate. The candidate would experience brain fog for the duration of the debate, and then would, seemingly miraculously, go back to being his usual sharp, energetic, perceptive self by the time he gave a speech the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Just because you are paranoid doesn&#8217;t mean they are aren&#8217;t out to get you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose I were the government of a very large country on the other side of the world, and I wanted to influence the outcome of the next US presidential election. One particular tactic might be very effective, and as that government I would certainly have the wherewithal to pull it off. I could simply arrange &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mickey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26598,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions\/26598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}