{"id":405,"date":"2014-11-02T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/02\/theres-something-about-j-edgar\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:51","slug":"theres-something-about-j-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/02\/theres-something-about-j-edgar\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s something about J. Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"

rawstory<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Halloween gift of glittery high heels on J. Edgar\u2019s tombstone this weekend (thx Steve Gardner for pic) pic.twitter.com\/nmEYT17dUX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) November 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

rawstory: Halloween gift of glittery high heels on J. Edgar\u2019s tombstone this weekend (thx Steve Gardner for pic) pic.twitter.com\/nmEYT17dUX \u2014 Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) November 2, 2014 \/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1344,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":0},"title":"Torture allegations in North Carolina prison","author":"aslam","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties The warden of North Carolina\u2019s Central Prison, Warden Gerald J. Branker has retired amid allegations of torture of inmates.Via examiner.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1540,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":1},"title":"Kucinich Asks Holder Why Justice Department Is Investigating Antiwar Activists | The Dissenter","author":"aslam","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesRep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has written a letter to Attorney General Eric J. Holder expressing concern about an investigation into antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. The congressman is the latest member of Congress to send Holder a letter on this matter.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1857,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/11\/21\/__trashed-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":2},"title":"In which a US administration inadvertently achieves transparency","author":"aslam","date":"November 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The US President clearly and succinctly lays out the policy underlying the country's relationship with Saudi Arabia over the past several decades. Statement from President Donald J. Trump\u00a0on\u00a0Standing with Saudi Arabia | The White House After my heavily negotiated trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"foreign policy\"","block_context":{"text":"foreign policy","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/foreign-policy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":183,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/01\/18\/what-the-fbis-surveillance-of-martin-luther-king\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":3},"title":"What the FBI\u2019s Surveillance of Martin Luther King Tells Us About the Modern Spy Era","author":"aslam","date":"January 18, 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"There is a myth in this country that in a world where everyone is watched, everyone is watched equally. It\u2019s as if an old and racist J. Edgar Hoover has been replaced by the race-blind magic of computers, mathematicians, and Big Data. The truth is more uncomfortable. Across our history\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/12\/01\/wanderers-a-short-film-by-erik-wernquist-from\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":4},"title":"Wanderers - a short film\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"December 1, 2014","format":"video","excerpt":"Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.For more information and stills gallery, please turn to: erikwernquist.com\/wanderers (Just in case my website runs slow, here is a link to an imgur album version of the gallery: imgur.com\/a\/Ur5dP) Wanderers is a vision of humanity\u2019s expansion into\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1885,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2019\/06\/12\/provisions-of-bill-that-sailed-through-congress-make-employees-vulnerable-to-dodgy-401ks-and-create-irs-money-grab\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":5},"title":"Provisions of bill that sailed through Congress make employees vulnerable to dodgy 401(k)s and create IRS “money grab”","author":"aslam","date":"June 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A large bipartisan majority of the US House of Representatives passed the SECURE Act. The bill has rule changes that many would welcome as well as some vexing provisions. The New York Times lists some of the bill's highlights. The otherwise relatively unobjectionable bill creates the potential of 401(k) investments\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"401(k)\"","block_context":{"text":"401(k)","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/401k\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/screenshot_2019-06-12-highlights-of-a-house-bille28099s-attempts-to-help-retirees-and-savers-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}