{"id":1402,"date":"2007-03-22T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/agent-of-wtf\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T10:54:13","slug":"agent-of-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/agent-of-wtf","title":{"rendered":"Agent of W.T.F.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years now, I developed a theory that America&#8217;s cold war worldviews were encapsulated in the psyche of Lee Harvey Oswald, but this relied on my belief that Oswald had so many cover stories, there was no actual person underneath them all. What do we get nowadays? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/21\/AR2007032101788.html\" target=\"_blank\">A CIA agent whose operational status no one can ascertain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years now, I developed a theory that America&#8217;s cold war worldviews were encapsulated in the psyche of Lee Harvey Oswald, but this relied on my belief that Oswald had so many cover stories, there was no actual person underneath them all. What do we get nowadays? A CIA agent whose operational status &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/agent-of-wtf\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agent of W.T.F.?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":938,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-shot-at-history","url_meta":{"origin":1402,"position":0},"title":"One Shot at History","author":"Gil","date":"May 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I find the figure of Lee Harvey Oswald fascinating. 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I've never been one for the supermarket tabloids & gossip mags, with their overriding fixation with pregnancy, but Page 6 usually gets is just right, with embarrassing celebrity stories, blind items that Amy & I occasionally suss out, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bald-win#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10565,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-236-mimi-pond","url_meta":{"origin":1402,"position":4},"title":"Episode 236 &#8211; Mimi Pond","author":"Gil","date":"September 18, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 236: Mimi Pond returns! \"I felt more of a sense of empty nest when I finished this book than I did when my children left home.\" Cartoonist and humorist Mimi Pond makes her third appearance on the show, this time to celebrate publication of The Customer is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/custcover.png?fit=670%2C856&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/custcover.png?fit=670%2C856&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/custcover.png?fit=670%2C856&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1326,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-the-agent-orange-of-change-agents","url_meta":{"origin":1402,"position":5},"title":"I&#8217;m the agent orange of change agents","author":"Gil","date":"February 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This article on BizWeek about the downfall of Wal-Mart ad exec Julie Roehm makes for entertaining reading. And it's worthwhile to note that advertising people really do talk like this: Wal-Mart, she says \"would rather have had a painkiller [than] taken the vitamin of change.\" What has she learned? \"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}