{"id":6431,"date":"2014-07-09T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2014-07-09T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:33:16","slug":"footnote1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/footnote1\/","title":{"rendered":"Footnote re &#8220;in sync&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange was arrested in sync with his organization&#8217;s world-shaking release of State Department cables. In sync as correlation is fact, check the <a href=\"http:\/\/usvwikileaks.org\/index.php?year=2010&#038;month=12\">calendar<\/a>. In sync as causation? Arguing that would require first understanding the (<a href=\"http:\/\/investigations.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/06\/22205443-after-43-years-activists-admit-theft-at-fbi-office-that-exposed-domestic-spying?lite\">historically predictable<\/a>) &#8220;official&#8221; version of the causation: The arrest was due to some combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/80912442\/Agreed-Facts-Assange-Case\">surprisingly empty sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> that turned into this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"476\" height=\"267.75\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUHrmZ7MLM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But arguing causation is not necessary, for &#8220;in sync&#8221; comes from the word <em>synchronicity<\/em>, which means &#8220;together in time&#8221;: correlation. The word has an exact meaning, and that is the meaning I am using.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a class=\"FlattrButton\" style=\"display:none;\" href=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/footnote1\/\" title=\" Footnote re &#8220;in sync&#8221;\" rev=\"flattr;uid:DouglasLucas;language:en_GB;category:text;tags:Footnote,blog;\">Julian Assange was arrested in sync with his organization&#8217;s world-shaking release of State Department cables. In sync as correlation is fact, check the calendar. In sync as causation? Arguing that...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange was arrested in sync with his organization&#8217;s world-shaking release of State Department cables. In sync as correlation is fact, check the calendar. In sync as causation? Arguing that would require first understanding the (historically predictable) &#8220;official&#8221; version of the causation: The arrest was due to some combination of surprisingly empty sexual misconduct allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-footnote","tag-footnote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}