{"id":395,"date":"2008-04-02T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-04-02T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:22:06","slug":"serious-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/02\/serious-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subhead\">Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn&#8217;t Afraid of Anything)<\/span><!--determine what kind of story this is, then render the layout accordingly.--> \t\t\t  \t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t<!--Photo Div--><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: none; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 300px\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citypaper.com\/sb\/135123\/feature-1.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: right\" class=\"source\"> \t\t\t\t\tPhotos by Michelle Gienow<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\" class=\"photocaption\"> \t\t\t\t\t<script language=\"Javascript\"> \t<!-- \tfunction PopupWindow135123() { \t\tnewwindow = window.open(\"\/gallery.asp?sid=135123\",\"email_popup\",\"toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,status=yes,width=920,height=700\"); \t\t} \t\/\/--> \t<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"H2\"><a href=\"javascript:PopupWindow135123();\">View a gallery of photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--Byline--><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/citypaper.com\/archives\/browse.asp?byline=Chris+Landers\"><strong>Chris Landers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--Body Text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"h1\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn&#8217;t cute or something to do for lack of something better. . . . This is a deadly serious activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"h1\"> &#8211;L. Ron Hubbard, 1965<\/p>\n<p class=\"h1\">  &#8220;The Internet is Serious Business&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"h1\"> &#8211;Anonymous<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"grafLead\">The telephone rings<\/span>, and a voice on the other end says that Anonymous is in crisis mode.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s March 13, two days before Anonymous&#8217; second protest against the Church of Scientology, and things are starting to get serious. Rumors abound that Scientologists are flying in investigators from church headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., to Washington. Reports have come in that people involved in Anonymous&#8211;&#8220;anons&#8221;&#8211;have been followed, and a series of videos have been posted on YouTube purporting to show anons without their masks and listing their real names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citypaper.com\/news\/story.asp?id=15543\">\u00a0[[[MORE]]] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn&#8217;t Afraid of Anything) Photos by Michelle Gienow View a gallery of photos. By Chris Landers &#8220;We&#8217;re not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn&#8217;t cute or something to do for lack of something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/02\/serious-business\/\">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-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}