{"id":412,"date":"2008-04-29T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/29\/little-billy\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:04:53","slug":"little-billy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/29\/little-billy\/","title":{"rendered":"little billy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/585-billy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/586-billy.jpg\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194530853433226482\" \/><\/a>via boingboing: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill.php\">radar magazine<\/a> story reports on bill geerhart, an unemployed thirtysomething, who sent letters to oprah winfrey, donald rumsfeld, and larry flynt while posing as a ten year old. &#8220;little billy&#8221; also sent letters to (and received responses from) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill_1.php\">richard ramirez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill_2.php\">charles manson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill_3.php\">ted kacynzski<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill_4.php\">eric menendez<\/a>.this is an old bit, perhaps best executed in don novello&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lazlo-Letters-Don-Novello\/dp\/1563052857\">the lazlo letters<\/a>. the prisoners&#8217; responses weren&#8217;t terribly revealing, since billy&#8217;s short letters didn&#8217;t give them much to work with. that said, i&#8217;m just a bit more sympathetic to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmagazine.com\/from-the-magazine\/2008\/04\/letter_to_charles_manson_richard_ramirez_ted_kacyinski_bill_8.php\">clarence thomas<\/a> after reading him tell billy that he likes egg mcmuffins and pretty much everything at mcdonalds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via boingboing: a radar magazine story reports on bill geerhart, an unemployed thirtysomething, who sent letters to oprah winfrey, donald rumsfeld, and larry flynt while posing as a ten year old. &#8220;little billy&#8221; also sent letters to (and received responses from) richard ramirez, charles manson, ted kacynzski, and eric menendez.this is an old bit, perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}