{"id":253,"date":"2003-05-20T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=253"},"modified":"2003-05-20T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T12:03:04","slug":"profound_disill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/20\/profound_disill.html","title":{"rendered":"Profound disillusionment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/he_fights_crime.html\">He fights crime!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, no, actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b3ta.com\/interview\/monkeyman\/\">he doesn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"><b>Do you feel guilty about plying gullible reporters with false stories?<\/b><br \/>\nNope. If the international press can be that gullible about this, then it does beg the question what else gets printed based on such unreliable information? We never set out to make them all look chumps. 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