{"id":846,"date":"2019-01-01T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=846"},"modified":"2019-01-01T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:47:54","slug":"troll-vs-troll-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/troll-vs-troll-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Troll vs Troll-Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width='320' height='77' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/SpyVsSpy.jpg' alt='' \/><i>MIT Technology Review<\/i>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/photoessay\/533426\/the-troll-hunters\"><b>The Troll Hunters<\/b><\/a>&#8221; (Adrian Chen, Dec 18 2014) calls to mind <i>Mad Magazine<\/i>&#8216;s black\/white &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spy_vs._Spy\"><b>Spy vs Spy<\/b><\/a>&#8221; (which was always symmetrical success\/failure and escalation). <\/p>\n<p>But it looks as if even good-spy vs bad-spy can get blurred, as internet-power corrupts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And of course it all began &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/05\/sky-writing-or-when-man-first-met-troll\/239420\/&#65279;\"><b>When Man First Met Troll<\/b><\/a>&#8221; (c. 1987 at the latest).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Technology Review&#8216;s &#8220;The Troll Hunters&#8221; (Adrian Chen, Dec 18 2014) calls to mind Mad Magazine&#8216;s black\/white &#8220;Spy vs Spy&#8221; (which was always symmetrical success\/failure and escalation). But it looks as if even good-spy vs bad-spy can get blurred, as internet-power corrupts&#8230; And of course it all began &#8220;When Man First Met Troll&#8221; (c. 1987 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/troll-vs-troll-hunter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Troll vs Troll-Hunter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}