{"id":210,"date":"2004-07-07T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T11:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:56","slug":"dont-read-that-youll-destroy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t read that! You&#8217;ll destroy it!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough to decide whether this belongs in the &#8220;Political Rants&#8221; or &#8220;Geek Stuff&#8221; category.  When I first read about it on a newsgroup, I first thought it belonged in tne &#8220;Bullshit&#8221; category, but a quick Google News search revealed that it&#8217;s true.  The Department of Justice has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information request for a list of foreign lobbyists, because copying the data would cause a massive crash and destroy the data.  Many reporters, such as the author of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/governmenttopics\/government\/story\/0,10801,94315,00.html\"><i>Computerworld<\/i> article<\/a>, have questioned whether that means the database can&#8217;t be backed up without destroying it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough to decide whether this belongs in the &#8220;Political Rants&#8221; or &#8220;Geek Stuff&#8221; category. When I first read about it on a newsgroup, I first thought it belonged in tne &#8220;Bullshit&#8221; category, but a quick Google News search revealed that it&#8217;s true. The Department of Justice has refused to comply with a Freedom of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=210\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t read that! You&#8217;ll destroy it!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}