{"id":3580,"date":"2008-04-06T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/strike-the-unhappy-medium\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T15:30:54","slug":"strike-the-unhappy-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/strike-the-unhappy-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"strike the (un)happy medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have to fight it. If not, <em>we will go back to the Dark Ages<\/em>, where we will be persecuted and prosecuted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; a UK spiritualist, complaining that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/apr\/06\/eu?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=uknews\">psychic services now fall under consumer protection legislation<\/a>. Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to fight it. If not, we will go back to the Dark Ages, where we will be persecuted and prosecuted. &#8212; a UK spiritualist, complaining that psychic services now fall under consumer protection legislation. Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[983,194],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-psychic","tag-snark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-VK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}