{"id":1391,"date":"2004-10-24T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T07:06:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-24T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T07:06:50","slug":"hoax-70-year-old-called-up-for-iraq-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/24\/hoax-70-year-old-called-up-for-iraq-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoax: 70-Year-Old Called Up for Iraq Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1377_0_1_0\">a blog entry about a 70-year-old reservist called up for Iraq duty.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recorded the segment from the evening news on KNTV (NBC in San Jose, California) and then transcribed the information into my blog entry.  I received many emails from people asking if it was a joke or a hoax, and I assured them that the story was accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am informed by Mark Flaa that he played quite a joke on his father-in-law, 70-year-old reservist Ted Wallace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.1accesshost.com\/news2\/sjm.html\">Wallace contacted the TV station and gave them his story before his son-in-law could tell him he had played an elaborate joke on him.  Flaa found out his father-in-law didn&#8217;t get the joke when he saw the news report himself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one I know has found this particularly funny.<\/p>\n<p>I personally apologize for having helped to spread this disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted a blog entry about a 70-year-old reservist called up for Iraq duty. I recorded the segment from the evening news on KNTV (NBC in San Jose, California) and then transcribed the information into my blog entry. I received many emails from people asking if it was a joke or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}