{"id":66,"date":"2005-04-01T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2005\/04\/conspiracy-trade-secrets\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T15:28:31","slug":"conspiracy-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/04\/01\/conspiracy-trade-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy &amp; Trade Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading the paper this morning, I came across these two cartoons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/images\/foxtrot.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/images\/foxtrot_tn.gif?w=580\" alt=\"Foxtrot cartoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/images\/getfuzzy.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/images\/getfuzzy_tn.gif?w=580\" alt=\"Get Fuzzy cartoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Either there is some conspiracy going on here or someone leaked trade secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading the paper this morning, I came across these two cartoons. Either there is some conspiracy going on here or someone leaked trade secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-14","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3817,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/09\/25\/5-ways-to-finally-address-drug-crime\/","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":0},"title":"5 ways to finally address drug crime","author":"Kim Siever","date":"25 September 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We need real solutions that address the underlying causes of drug crime: supply and poverty. 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