{"id":352,"date":"2003-10-20T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T21:30:00","slug":"352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/352\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t get &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping someone can explain it to me. What purpose does all of the gibberish<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/spam.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" \/> at the end of a spam mailing serve the person who sent it? I mean, I get the whole thing of adding spaces and substituting characters to try to make it through a spam filter, but what&#8217;s the point of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Y2hyaXMtYkBhdWRpb2VkaXRpb25zLmNvbQ== yet they cause no harm. Society outcasts don\u2019t choose their status he goes to visit the dogs&#8217; graves and finds a giant red fern. According to Indian legend participates in school plays crime<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just learned today from <i>Catalog Age<\/i> magazine that Tommy Chong was arrested in a crackdown on drug paraphenalia for selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/drugs\/pipe-sites\/chong-glass.htm\">bongs<\/a> over the internet. And who&#8217;s to blame? Why, one John Ashcroft. OK, so maybe we have to blame Chong for being a whacked-out idiot, but who is the Attorney General <i>not<\/i> trying to alienate?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a typically unbalanced report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1066850,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a different article from E! Online, Chong was quoted as saying, in an online chat hosted by the <i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/i>, when asked what he thought about the feds coming down on stoners, <i>&#8220;I feel pretty bad, but it seems to be the only weapons of mass destruction they&#8217;ve found this year.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t get &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping someone can explain it to me. What purpose does all of the gibberish at the end of a spam mailing serve the person who sent it? I mean, I get the whole thing of adding spaces and substituting characters to try to make it through a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/352\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}