{"id":222,"date":"2007-03-19T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:45:43","slug":"suddenly-the-cargo-cult-sounds-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly, the Cargo Cult Sounds Reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a recent news article about a woman who murdered her young daughter.  The crime itself is horrific, but this quote simply boggled me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spann&#8217;s father, Gary Spann, told The Sacramento Bee in 2005 his daughter&#8230; belonged to a cult that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of the 16th century political philosopher Machiavelli.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Googling &#8220;Tupac Machiavelli&#8221; turns up more sheer weirdness than should be allowed, particularly on a Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a recent news article about a woman who murdered her young daughter. The crime itself is horrific, but this quote simply boggled me: Spann&#8217;s father, Gary Spann, told The Sacramento Bee in 2005 his daughter&#8230; belonged to a cult that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of the 16th century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}