{"id":984,"date":"2026-02-01T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:14:17","slug":"712-its-really-mind-boggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/01\/712-its-really-mind-boggling\/","title":{"rendered":"[#712] It\u2019s really mind boggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

So it\u2019s been a month since I quit social media and boy howdy am I greater for it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019m still staying informed on things, which is the reason behind my blog post title today. In which, it is so absolutely mind boggling how the political sides take a story and form their own narratives about it. Like, who do you really believe in this case?!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And each one often becomes more outrageous than the other. It\u2019s especially tragic when people lose their lives because you can\u2019t exactly say, \u201cokay, now tell us what REALLY happened.\u201d This is a great time for Ned from Pushing Daisies\u2019s powers to actually exist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Anyway, since it\u2019s the end of the month, here\u2019s the January reading wrap!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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So it\u2019s been a month since I quit social media and boy howdy am I greater for it. I\u2019m still staying informed on things, which is the reason behind my blog post title today. In which, it is so absolutely mind boggling how the political sides take a story and form their own narratives about… Continue reading [#712] It\u2019s really mind boggling<\/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":"[#712] It\u2019s really mind boggling","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[350,362],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","tag-monthly-wrap-up","tag-rare-political-thing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}