{"id":443,"date":"2008-07-16T00:11:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T07:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-07-16T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T07:11:39","slug":"louie-is-not-on-the-torture-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"LOUIE is not on the torture list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/26\/torture-playlist.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>, I saw this posting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/news\/featurex\/2008\/03\/torture-playlist.html\">Mother Jones<\/a> has an audio feature up this week &#8212; a compilation of songs believed to be used in US military prisons and on bases&#8230;  to induce sleep deprivation, &#8220;prolong capture shock,&#8221; disorient detainees during interrogations\u2014and also drown out screams.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/news\/featurex\/2008\/03\/torture-playlist.html\">Mother Jones article and playlist<\/a>, I see that LOUIE LOUIE is <strong>not<\/strong> one of the &#8220;torture songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same could <strong>not<\/strong> be said about the <strong>Barney<\/strong> theme song, the <strong>Meow Mix<\/strong> TV commercial and the <strong>BeeGees<\/strong> &#8220;Staying Alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at BoingBoing, I saw this posting: Mother Jones has an audio feature up this week &#8212; a compilation of songs believed to be used in US military prisons and on bases&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louie-universe","category-24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}