{"id":1325,"date":"2007-04-25T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/25\/knights-take-bishop\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T23:17:00","slug":"knights-take-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/25\/knights-take-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights Take Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press today published some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/356991,bishop-letters042507.articleprint\">excerpts from threatening letters<\/a> sent by the now-arrested, would-be pipe bomber calling himself &#8220;the Bishop.&#8221;  And even if he hadn&#8217;t chosen an incredibly lame supervillain name, his diabolical scheme was straight out of Austin Powers: he wanted investment firms to pump up the share price of two companies so his stock options would be worth more.  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Stock options.<\/span>  I mean, seriously, doesn&#8217;t anyone just ask for small, unmarked bills any more?<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press today published some excerpts from threatening letters sent by the now-arrested, would-be pipe bomber calling himself &#8220;the Bishop.&#8221; And even if he hadn&#8217;t chosen an incredibly lame supervillain name, his diabolical scheme was straight out of Austin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}