{"id":448,"date":"2005-12-24T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=448"},"modified":"2005-12-24T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T13:14:41","slug":"hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UMass Dartmouth student who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000378.html\">claimed he was visited by Homeland Security agents<\/a> after an ILL request for Mao&#8217;s <cite>Little Red Book<\/cite> has now confessed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/daily\/12-05\/12-24-05\/a01lo719.htm\">making up the story<\/a>.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t usually fall for urban legends and hoaxes, but there&#8217;s a first (or <em>n<\/em>th) time for everything.  And I suppose that, after all the undocumented claims about outrages on campuses from other POVs, it&#8217;s time that a hoax catered to civil-liberties fears.  But I was wrong not to note earlier that it was alleged, and kudos to those (including <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgath.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/library-investigation-that-maybe-wasnt.html\">Gary McGath<\/a>) who were more cautious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UMass Dartmouth student who had claimed he was visited by Homeland Security agents after an ILL request for Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book has now confessed to making up the story. I don&#8217;t usually fall for urban legends and hoaxes, but there&#8217;s a first (or nth) time for everything. And I suppose that, after all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sag0MB-hoax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}