{"id":11303,"date":"2008-07-11T23:50:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T06:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/07\/11\/11303.html"},"modified":"2008-07-11T23:50:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T06:50:05","slug":"spam-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/07\/11\/spam-news-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam news network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent development in email spam subject lines: provocative fake news headlines (often political), some of which are kinda amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples from my recent mail, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clinton withdraws support for Obama<\/li>\n<li>Madonna admits to extra marital affair<\/li>\n<li>Mccaine vows to remain celibate<\/li>\n<li>Obama bows out of presidential race<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg found dead in freak accident<\/li>\n<li>Eminem found dead in disco toilet<\/li>\n<li>Obama shows his larger than life manhood [I suppose this one might be of the \"nude photos of celebrities\" genre instead, but those are pretty much always female celebrities.]<\/li>\n<li>McCain withdraws from presidential race<\/li>\n<li>Hilary Clinton castigated in broad daylight<\/li>\n<li>Talks break down, world war unavoidable [And variant: Third World War has begun]<\/li>\n<li>USA declares war on Iran [And lots of variants]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I imagine most of y'all have seen some of this kind of thing by now, but I was amused enough to post 'em anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And there are a fair number of real-world news headlines as spam subject lines these days, too. It can sometimes take some time to figure out which is which.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent development in email spam subject lines: provocative fake news headlines (often political), some of which are kinda amusing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}