{"id":1097,"date":"2014-06-23T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-06-23T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:34:51","slug":"chemtrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/chemtrails\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemtrails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the silliest conspiracy theories around is that the government is using high-flying jets to distribute chemical or biological agents to the public for sinister purposes.  The believers claim that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemtrails\" title=\"Chemtrails\">Chemtrails<\/a>&#8221; act differently from normal contrails (the white water vapor clouds left in the sky after a jet plane passes) in that they disperse more slowly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/47\/Contrail.fourengined.arp.jpg\/435px-Contrail.fourengined.arp.jpg\" alt=\"Contrails\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/thevane.gawker.com\/insane-lady-yells-at-clouds-and-sprays-vinegar-at-the-s-1550883163\" title=\"Vinegar\">video<\/a> of a woman spraying vinegar up into the air to combat the chemtrail.  She was careful to point it at the trail so it would be most effective.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--FhfyS2-1--\/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636\/kqyrammw4u8efzwofrqi.png\" alt=\"Vinegar\" width=400\/><\/p>\n<p>Now there is an Arizona state senator hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/arizona-senator-hosting-chemtrail-forum-article-1.1839792\" title=\"Chemtrail Forum\">chemtrail forum<\/a> after being bombarded with emails, letters and phone calls asking for government action to stop the poisoning of the air.  Hopefully the senator&#8217;s intention is to debunk and calm the upset people, but it&#8217;s very hard to convince conspiracy theorists that they are wrong.  If you disagree, then you must be part of the conspiracy. <\/p>\n<p>This is up there with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_conspiracy_theories\" title=\"List\">theories<\/a> that the moon landing was faked, that the U.S. Government planned and executed the 9\/11 attacks, and that the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a government operation to help promote gun control.  Did you know that Obama tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/conspiracy\/charleston.asp\" title=\"Nuclear\">detonate a nuclear weapon<\/a> over Charleston, SC, but his Generals thwarted him? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the silliest conspiracy theories around is that the government is using high-flying jets to distribute chemical or biological agents to the public for sinister purposes. The believers claim that &#8220;Chemtrails&#8221; act differently from normal contrails (the white water vapor clouds left in the sky after a jet plane passes) in that they disperse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}