{"id":254,"date":"2009-11-16T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:41:05","slug":"scientology-and-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Scientology and Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article in The Independent about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/renouncing-islamism-to-the-brink-and-back-again-1821215.html\">terrorists that changed their minds<\/a>. Still reading it and it&#8217;s fascinating. The upshot of it is that I can&#8217;t get over how the recruitment techniques of the jihadis remind me of the way Scientologists rope in unsuspecting dupes. Or street gangs, for that matter. It&#8217;s just that Scientology makes for a more catchy headline, so I went with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article in The Independent about terrorists that changed their minds. Still reading it and it&#8217;s fascinating. The upshot of it is that I can&#8217;t get over how the recruitment techniques of the jihadis remind me of the way Scientologists rope in unsuspecting dupes. Or street gangs, for that matter. It&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}