{"id":978,"date":"2012-12-18T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=978"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:40:16","slug":"a-thermonuclear-device-for-the-weekend-anarchist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/a-thermonuclear-device-for-the-weekend-anarchist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thermonuclear Device for the Weekend Anarchist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is just a link to an goofy article that I wrote a lifetime ago and was published on Compuserve and by extension the internet in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/files\/weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Thermonuclear Device for the Weekend Anarchist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then it has been republished extensively and (amazingly) is still credited to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote the article for a creative writing class in college. The assignment was to document step-by-step a process in an engaging manner. Someone wrote about making cupcakes, another about changing oil. As you know (if you know me) I&#8217;m a bit &#8220;different.&#8221;&nbsp;Regardless&nbsp;of the fact that this process is bogus and will only kill the person trying to execute it at at least three points in the process; it got an A+++. To this day I&nbsp;believe&nbsp;that &nbsp;I got that grade because I scared the hell out of my liberal artsy associate&nbsp;professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a link to an goofy article that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuckularone","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuckularone\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/writing\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Writing<\/a>","tag_info":"Writing","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}