{"id":4951,"date":"2023-07-29T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2023-07-29T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:00:57","slug":"freshthinker-bret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2023\/07\/29\/freshthinker-bret\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshthinker Bret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, instead of posting early as he usually does, Christoforou got his vid up well into the evening&#8211;maybe eight PM in this time zone. <\/p>\n<p>Ritual and habitual, I watched, even though doctrine says I should be getting ready to bed down by then. <\/p>\n<p>It was especially unusual for me to be watching a video on Rumble instead of YouTube that time of night, because as far as I can tell, there is no way to stop the Autoplay of another video on Rumble. So I avoid putting on headphones and letting somebody&#8217;s talk drift me to sleep. Except on YT, where I usually pick out some kind of hypnodroning ASMR for that purpose. <\/p>\n<p>But I was on Rumble, just up and listening, and doing other computer things when that video ended. So the next one played. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know it yet, but the next one would keep me awake and alert, right to the end, another hour later. <\/p>\n<p>It was an episode of Kim Iversen&#8217;s show. I don&#8217;t usually seek her out. But this time, she said &#8230; &#8216;our guest is Bret Weinstein, yadda yadda, and he&#8217;s written a book called<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v32v6kw-the-deterioration-of-our-nation-and-how-to-stop-it-a-conversation-with-bret.html\">A Hunter Gatherer&#8217;s Guide to the 21st Century <\/a><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; a political discussion about the deterioration of the nation &#8230; through the lens of hunting and gathering?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d be up for that &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, instead of posting early as he usually does, Christoforou got his vid up well into the evening&#8211;maybe eight PM in this time zone. Ritual and habitual, I watched, even though doctrine says I should be getting ready to bed down by then. It was especially unusual for me to be watching a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}