{"id":105445,"date":"2016-09-04T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105445"},"modified":"2016-09-04T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:38:10","slug":"they-called-us-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105445","title":{"rendered":"They Called Us Idiots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/analogy.html\">Blog<\/a>: A young man recently said to me, &#8220;What if a bunch of space aliens with IQ&#8217;s of 200 came down and kidnapped us and brought us back to their planet to use as slaves, but we couldn&#8217;t handle their technology, and were more or less useless, and they called us idiots. 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