{"id":4388,"date":"2011-05-27T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2012-07-16T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:20:25","slug":"blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"Blocked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that I have been blocked on Twitter by Neal Boortz.  Here are the two tweets I sent him:<\/p>\n<p>In response to Neal asking if there was anything more pathetic than Obama &#8220;progs&#8221; trying to claim credit for bin Laden&#8217;s killing, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>@Talkmaster Sure: progs grasping at OBL&#8217;s death to justify Bush&#8217;s mistakes even more pathetic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in response to his question if the birth certificate would shut up the birthers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>@Talkmaster If only. Conspiracy theorists never let facts get in the way of their paranoia. The BC issue will stay with us. Sigh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former is the one that seems to have triggered the block.  A completely inoffensive reply but one that apparently, by criticizing Bush, went too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that I have been blocked on Twitter by Neal Boortz. Here are the two tweets I sent him: In response to Neal asking if there was anything more pathetic than Obama &#8220;progs&#8221; trying to claim credit for bin Laden&#8217;s killing, I said: @Talkmaster Sure: progs grasping at OBL&#8217;s death to justify Bush&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blocked?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[405,194],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-blocked","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}