{"id":386,"date":"2008-03-12T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2008-03-12T22:35:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:35:25","slug":"what-to-get-l-ron-hubbard-for-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/12\/what-to-get-l-ron-hubbard-for-his-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Get L. Ron Hubbard for His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"subhead\">How \u201cAnonymous\u201d has changed the game of exposing Scientology&#8217;s ruthless global scam<\/p>\n<p id=\"byline\">by Tony Ortega<\/p>\n<p id=\"publishDate\">March 11th, 2008 12:11 AM<\/p>\n<p id=\"publishDate\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"publishDate\">    L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp fiction writer who gave the world <em>Battlefield Earth<\/em>, as well as a nuisance known as Scientology, would have turned 97 years old this Thursday, March 13.Ron\u2019s been worm food for more than a score of years now, so it probably won\u2019t matter to him that the best birthday party being held in his name will take place a couple of days late. On Saturday, March 15, the surprisingly upstart, leaderless movement known as \u201cAnonymous\u201d will be holding its second worldwide anti-Scientology protests at Hubbard sites in more than a dozen countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/0811,ortega,357974,2.html\">[[MORE]]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How \u201cAnonymous\u201d has changed the game of exposing Scientology&#8217;s ruthless global scam by Tony Ortega March 11th, 2008 12:11 AM &nbsp; L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp fiction writer who gave the world Battlefield Earth, as well as a nuisance known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/12\/what-to-get-l-ron-hubbard-for-his-birthday\/\">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-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}