{"id":375,"date":"2008-08-30T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T07:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2008-08-30T04:34:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T10:34:45","slug":"forwarded-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Forwarded Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves is forwarded emails that are intended to scare or anger people or give them something for free. You know what I&#8217;m talking about: emails about the latest serial killer techniques, a politician&#8217;s religious beliefs or recent meeting with troops overseas, fake printable coupons to Blockbuster, computer virus warnings, etc. People receive something inflammatory or scary from a friend (who got it from a friend at work, who got it from their aunt in Muskogee) and blindly send it out without doing any kind of research or even using any common sense. I just found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/specialreports\/that_chain_e-mail_your_friend_sent_to.html\" target=\"_blank\">great article on factcheck.org <\/a>on this phenomenon and how it relates to political email forwards.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive a forward, you can investigate it through several websites that do the legwork for you. My favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\" target=\"_blank\">snopes.com<\/a>. If you send me a bogus forward, there&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;ll write back with the appropriate Snopes link. I might even copy all the other people you included. Other options include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthechain.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">breakthechain.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\" target=\"_blank\">factcheck.org<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">urbanlegends.about.com<\/a>. Before you forward something, PLEASE do your homework and try to ensure that it&#8217;s true. The chain won&#8217;t stop unless <em>you <\/em>stop it. Do the right thing, people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves is forwarded emails that are intended to scare or anger people or give them something for free. You know what I&#8217;m talking about: emails about the latest serial killer techniques, a politician&#8217;s religious beliefs or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}