{"id":4830,"date":"2025-10-25T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:15:40","slug":"people-including-trump-who-fell-for-the-war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/the-big-picture\/people-including-trump-who-fell-for-the-war-of-the-worlds","title":{"rendered":"People, including Trump, who fell for the War Of The Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was watching a television special about the War Of The Worlds, and was thinking about how no one could possibly be gullible enough to believe such things &#8211; and then my housemate commented that modern people were equally gullible. There are *still* Republicans who are convinced that America&#8217;s cities were burned down in the George Floyd protests, or are currently under seige and need the military sent to them. The *president* claims to believe it, although since Trump cannot speak without lying it&#8217;s hard to tell what&#8217;s really going on in his head. So apparently we still believe in these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was watching a television special about the War Of The Worlds, and was thinking about how no one could possibly be gullible enough to believe such things &#8211; and then my housemate commented that modern people were equally gullible. There are *still* Republicans who are convinced that America&#8217;s cities were burned down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}