{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275/events","html_url":"https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275","id":90972075,"number":275,"title":"wrestle with issues occasioned by uncanny likeness to Ross Ulbricht","user":{"login":"whit537","id":134455,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/134455?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-06-25T13:56:03Z","updated_at":"2015-06-25T14:01:20Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Reticketed from https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/270 after going down the :rabbit: hole on [this Silk Road story](http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/).\r\n\r\nI feel like Ross Ulbricht's doppelgänger. We have similar cultural backgrounds. We both have connections to Pennsylvania (I know a guy that knew him at Penn State). We're both idealistic thirty-somethings who started economic experiments with rhetoric about \"non-coercion\" and \"making the world a better place.\" I ran [payday 94 at the cafe whence he administered Silk Road](https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/2165) (the *Wired* story inexplicably names a different cafe). Aaaaaaaand we look like pretty much the same dude, ... wiiiiiiiiiiiith the same penchant for being photographed stern-faced aaaaaand shirtless:\r\n\r\n![chad](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/134455/8344412/6fd88068-1aaf-11e5-9da4-e4e1aac11a0d.jpg) &nbsp;  &nbsp; ![ross](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/134455/8344465/22442c98-1ab0-11e5-806c-fe4e8ac335ff.jpg)\r\n\r\n*sigh*\r\n\r\nWhat's going on here?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/comments/115267905","html_url":"https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275#issuecomment-115267905","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/275","id":115267905,"user":{"login":"whit537","id":134455,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/134455?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-25T14:01:20Z","updated_at":"2015-06-25T14:01:20Z","body":"Along the way, I read a good chunk of the content from [this old Frontline piece on the War on Drugs](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/), and watched a bit of Cody Wilson: a [segment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK6-kbdHE2A) he did with Glenn Beck, and part of a [talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3zx8kyVtGM) he gave to what appears to be a libertarian student group at the University of Texas."}}