{"id":648,"date":"2008-12-02T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T02:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-12-02T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T02:05:08","slug":"amazon-pulls-stupid-scientology-book-author-blames-stupid-tom-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/02\/amazon-pulls-stupid-scientology-book-author-blames-stupid-tom-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pulls Stupid Scientology Book, Author Blames Stupid Tom Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2nd, 2008 at 17:00 by Shawn Lindseth<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hecklerspray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tom-cruise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the powers that be ordered all American readings of Huckleberry Finn be cancelled, the US school system complied immediately. And for good reason too &#8211; the western world simply wasn\u2019t ready for its interracial NAMBLA undertones.<\/p>\n<p>You know who was ready though? Perverts.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s besides the point.<\/p>\n<p>Books still get banned you know. All the time &#8211; why just recently the British arm of Amazon.com reached into its electronic library, grabbed a tell-all work of non-fiction by the spine and thrashed it to and fro until the pages thereof had all fluttered loosely to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Rumour has it the book was pulled by the heavy hand of Tom Cruise who, for the record, denies any involvement in this literary scandal. His influence is implied because the novel\u2019s topic is &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; Esoteric Christianity. Or whatever that thing is he\u2019s deep into.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hecklerspray.com\/amazon-pulls-a-book-author-blames-tom-cruise-scientologys-super-elite-strike-force-or-something\/200817537.php\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2nd, 2008 at 17:00 by Shawn Lindseth When the powers that be ordered all American readings of Huckleberry Finn be cancelled, the US school system complied immediately. And for good reason too &#8211; the western world simply wasn\u2019t ready &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/02\/amazon-pulls-stupid-scientology-book-author-blames-stupid-tom-cruise\/\">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-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}