{"id":34,"date":"2004-08-13T21:25:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/ive-been-reading-911-commission-report\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T21:25:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T21:25:28","slug":"ive-been-reading-911-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/ive-been-reading-911-commission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Commission Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the 9\/11 commission report over the last couple of weeks, and it has served as a reminder of the problems caused by religious fanaticism. I&#8217;ve also been reading some memetic analysis of Christian fundamentalism. For those of you who don&#8217;t know what memetics is, it is the study of the transmission and replication of ideas (memes). This has made me wonder what it is about certain ideas\/memes that causes them to become viral. Where does one man&#8217;s speculation about the nature of the universe and how to act ethically within it turn it a religious movement that forces people to follow silly rules and convert or die? I don&#8217;t really have an answer to that, but it is going to be something that I am going to continue thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the 9\/11 commission report over the last couple of weeks, and it has served as a reminder of the problems caused by religious fanaticism. I&#8217;ve also been reading some memetic analysis of Christian fundamentalism. For those of you who don&#8217;t know what memetics is, it is the study of the transmission and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}