{"id":44,"date":"2001-09-21T13:38:29","date_gmt":"2001-09-21T20:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/09\/21\/44.html"},"modified":"2001-09-21T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2001-09-21T20:38:29","slug":"rumor-patrol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/09\/21\/rumor-patrol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank goodness for Barbara and David Mikkelson, the folks who run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes2.com\/\">Urban Legends Reference Pages<\/a>.  They're on the job once again with a page about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes2.com\/info\/rumors.htm\">rumors related to the terrorist attacks<\/a>.  Good to see some confirmation of some true rumors and debunking of some false ones, and further explanation\/discussion for most of 'em.  Note in particular that Clear Channel Communications didn't actually <em>ban<\/em> a long list of songs from playing on any of the many radio stations they own; there was merely a list of potentially problematic songs that was circulated internally for program directors who wanted to use it (but they were allowed to ignore it if they wanted to).<\/p>\n<p>URLs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunday-times.co.uk\/news\/pages\/sti\/2001\/09\/16\/stiusausa01035.html\">Also, here's a few more rumor debunkings<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness for Barbara and David Mikkelson, the folks who run the Urban Legends Reference Pages. They&#8217;re on the job&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}