{"id":74,"date":"2005-03-11T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/03\/11\/ismail-sam-sloan-epitomizing-cleve"},"modified":"2005-03-11T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T09:26:16","slug":"ismail-sam-sloan-epitomizing-clever-virile-mad-shameless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/03\/11\/ismail-sam-sloan-epitomizing-clever-virile-mad-shameless-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ismail “Sam” Sloan : epitomizing clever, virile, mad, shameless Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s no good way to describe Mr. Sloan.  And I think I’ve tried to write about him before; I know James <\/span>has. Here’s another shot:<\/p>\n

He’s successfully
\n<\/span>argued his own case before the United States Supreme Court, been barred from entering the Phillippines, had his
\ngirlfriend deported from the UAE<\/span>, fathered eight children<\/a> by six women, been married five? times, including once less than a week after meeting his soon-to-be wife, escaped from jail in Afghanistan<\/a>, led a social revolution at the University of Berkeley<\/span>, and produced one of the world most idiosyncratic blog-like websites, long before blogs were a twinkling in Sir Timothy<\/span>‘s eye..<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of stray anger and frustration and libido scattered about his site;
\nyou may not enjoy browsing it yourself.  But to get an overview of
\nit, you might skim his quiz series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no good way to describe Mr. Sloan.  And I think I’ve tried to write about him before; I know James has. Here’s another shot: He’s successfully argued his own case before the United States Supreme Court, been barred from entering the Phillippines, had his girlfriend deported from the UAE, fathered eight children by six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-weird-for-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}