{"id":35950,"date":"2020-01-06T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35950"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:08:03","slug":"us-government-agency-website-crashes-amid-panic-over-military-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35950","title":{"rendered":"US government agency website crashes amid panic over military draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selective Service System said on Twitter its website was receiving high-pitched traffic volume&#8217; due to the spread of misinformation&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jan\/04\/jane-fonda-protest-iran-trump-administration\">Fonda and Ellsberg protest at escalating conflict with Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the US drone strike that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/04\/suleimani-assassination-fears-grow-bloody-reprisal-funeral-baghdad-tehran\">killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani<\/a> in Baghdad, the word &ldquo;World War III&rdquo; began trending on social media.<\/p>\n<p>More startlingly, a US government agency which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sss.gov\/\">registers young men for a potential military draft<\/a> realise its website crash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jan\/04\/us-military-draft-iran-selective-service-system\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jan\/04\/us-military-draft-iran-selective-service-system\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selective Service System said on Twitter its website was receiving high-pitched traffic volume&#8217; due to the spread of misinformation&rsquo; Fonda and Ellsberg protest at escalating conflict with Iran In the aftermath of the US drone strike that killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad, the word &ldquo;World War III&rdquo; began trending on social media. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2686,15665,15616,15610],"class_list":["post-35950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-iran","tag-us-military","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/35001578337684.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}