{"id":702,"date":"2025-04-01T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yougotthatwrite.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-05-17T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:39:19","slug":"what-a-fool-believes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yougotthatwrite.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/what-a-fool-believes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a fool believes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know how smart you were back in fifth grade, but I was a pretty big fool for such a young kid. I learned how easy it is to be duped.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In fifth grade I attended private school in Manhattan. The former mansion had four stories and a basement. All its rooms were built around an inner courtyard. My classroom that period was down a flight, below street level. It had large picture windows looking out onto the base of the courtyard. I was a lab room. I was in Science class.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Well I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one reason or another I didn’t make it to class on time. I recall having to use the bathroom first. When I got back, everyone was gathered around a radio on the slate countertop, listening intently. I took a seat and listened too.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It was a live news broadcast from out in Jersey. It got pretty intense pretty quick I recall. Almost too fast for my fertile young brain to process. At one point I remember panicking pretty bad, it was all so real. I truly expected aliens to be landing in that courtyard any minute. I was freaking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before long I learned I’d missed the teacher’s little intro as to what she was playing for us. I was also not in on how she put a cassette player in the radio’s shell to sell the effect. I took it all as real. And I learned some very important things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Orson Welles had my respect<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Believe half of what you hear<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • And next time get to class on time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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