{"id":8184,"date":"2010-06-24T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/24\/inside-the-mind-of-the-anonymo\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:00:14","slug":"inside-the-mind-of-the-anonymo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/inside-the-mind-of-the-anonymo\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;Certain topics never fail to generate a flood of impassioned reactions online: immigration, President Obama, federal taxes, &#8220;birthers,&#8221; and race. This story about Obama&#8217;s Kenyan aunt, who had been exposed as an illegal immigrant living in public housing in Boston and who was now seeking asylum, manages to pull strands from all five of those contentious subjects&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/magazine\/articles\/2010\/06\/20\/inside_the_mind_of_the_anonymous_online_poster\/\"><br \/>\nHere at the Boston Globe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/youre_not_helping_has_melted_d.php#comment-2604325\">Virgil Samms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece: &#8230;Certain topics never fail to generate a flood of impassioned reactions online: immigration, President Obama, federal taxes, &#8220;birthers,&#8221; and race. This story about Obama&#8217;s Kenyan aunt, who had been exposed as an illegal immigrant living in public housing in Boston and who was now seeking asylum, manages to pull strands from all five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/inside-the-mind-of-the-anonymo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-280","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}