{"id":1415,"date":"2023-01-20T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","slug":"hand-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/hand-shake\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"404\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/secret.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/secret.jpeg 404w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/secret-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Who is your leader?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By their very name, secret societies inspire curiosity, fascination and distrust. When the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters\/2016\/02\/24\/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broke the story<\/a> in 2016 that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent his final hours in the company of members of a secret society for elite hunters,&nbsp;people instantly wanted to know more about the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fraternity in question, International Order of St. Hubertus, was incorporated by Count Anton von Sporck in 1695 and was originally intended to gather ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By their very name, secret societies inspire curiosity, fascination and distrust. When the Washington Post broke the story in 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/crashing-to-earth-meteor-showers101.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}