{"id":9407,"date":"2019-01-11T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2019-01-11T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:21:47","slug":"sorcery-or-glitch-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"Sorcery or glitch in the matrix?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first read about this in George Takei&#8217;s Twitter feed. Then I checked it on Snopes, and it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There really was a 1958 episode of a television Western (an episode titled <em>The End of the World<\/em>, of the series <em>Trackdown<\/em>), in which a character named <strong>Trump<\/strong>, a <strong>con artist<\/strong>, <strong>proposes to build an impenetrable wall<\/strong> to protect a town&#8217;s inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JsWP6bU-LgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/trackdown-trump-character-wall\/\">Snopes confirms<\/a>: the episode is real. In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h1D2ynASqe4\">full episode<\/a> is available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9407' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first read about this in George Takei&#8217;s Twitter feed. Then I checked it on Snopes, and it is true. There really was a 1958 episode of a television Western (an episode titled The End of the World, of the series Trackdown), in which a character named Trump, a con artist, proposes to build an <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9407' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-television","category-25-id","category-5-id","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}