{"id":19711,"date":"2013-04-04T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:39:17","slug":"qotd-declining-belief-in-some-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/qotd-declining-belief-in-some-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Declining belief in (some) conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In case you&#8217;re curious: The Paul-is-dead theory is reportedly embraced by 5 percent of the population &mdash; far less, no doubt, than believed it in 1968, though you might expect all those mediocre solo albums to make the theory more popular rather than less. The Icke\/Slitheen thesis about reptilian overlords was endorsed by 4 percent of the country. I figure a bunch of those &#8220;yes&#8221; answers were only trolling, but some of the &#8220;no&#8221; answers surely came from people who just DIDN&#8217;T WANT THE LIZARD MEN TO KNOW THEY WERE ONTO THEM, so let&#8217;s call it a wash.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Walker, footnote to <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/paul-is-dead-cover-up-fools-95-percent-o\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Paul-Is-Dead Cover-Up Fools 95 Percent of America&#8221;, <em>Hit and Run<\/em><\/a>, 2013-04-03<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re curious: The Paul-is-dead theory is reportedly embraced by 5 percent of the population &mdash; far less, no doubt, than believed it in 1968, though you might expect all those mediocre solo albums to make the theory more popular rather than less. The Icke\/Slitheen thesis about reptilian overlords was endorsed by 4 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[7,28,41,13],"tags":[250,127,289],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-beatles","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-57V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}