{"id":1663,"date":"2011-02-25T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2011-02-25T08:14:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:14:41","slug":"totally-1-1-taking-scientology-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/02\/25\/totally-1-1-taking-scientology-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally 1.1: Taking Scientology Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathandtaxesmag.com\/50918\/the-new-yorkers-scientology-story-is-worth-all-28-pages\/\">Lawrence Wright\u2019s incredible profile of Paul Haggis and his dramatic departure from Scientology<\/a> in the last issue of the New Yorker, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder how Scientologists ended up coining so many awesome terms and phrases. Everything is something else. You\u2019re not just a good guy, you\u2019re \u201cclear.\u201d How come we can\u2019t be clear like them?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the trick: You can be. And you don\u2019t have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on auditing to get there. Or work in a labor camp. Or refinish a motorcycle for Tom Cruise. You just need to use their language, which is mostly pretty fun to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathandtaxesmag.com\/55324\/totally-1-1-taking-scientology-hostage\/\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading\u00a0Lawrence Wright\u2019s incredible profile of Paul Haggis and his dramatic departure from Scientology in the last issue of the New Yorker, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder how Scientologists ended up coining so many awesome terms and phrases. Everything is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/02\/25\/totally-1-1-taking-scientology-hostage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}