{"id":221,"date":"2007-12-23T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/straight-dope-message-board-i-waterboard"},"modified":"2007-12-23T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:18:52","slug":"straight-dope-message-board-i-waterboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/straight-dope-message-board-i-waterboard","title":{"rendered":"What waterboarding feels like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waterboarding\">Waterboarding<\/a> is a torture technique that has been in the news recently because the United States Justice Department authorized the use of this technique by the CIA to interrogate suspects. <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?t=448717\">This person on the Straight Dope message boards<\/a> tried it upon himself and reports on the experience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So much talk of waterboarding, so much controversy. But what is it really? How bad? I wanted to write the definitive thread on waterboarding, settle the issue. Torture, or not?<\/p>\n<p>To determine the answer, I knew I had to try it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what I would do. First I would google waterboarding to understand the basic concepts than I would try it on myself. First, self inflicted and then, if necessary, inflicted by my wife.(she has no problem torturing me. We&#8217;ve been married almost 15 years.)<\/p>\n<p>These are the results of my research and experience:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not going to give away the suspense &#8211; read <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?t=448717\">the article<\/a> yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterboarding is a torture technique that has been in the news recently because the United States Justice Department authorized the use of this technique by the CIA to interrogate suspects. This person on the Straight Dope message boards tried it upon himself and reports on the experience: So much talk of waterboarding, so much controversy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/straight-dope-message-board-i-waterboard\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What waterboarding feels like<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What waterboarding feels like - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/straight-dope-message-board-i-waterboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What waterboarding feels like - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Waterboarding is a torture technique that has been in the news recently because the United States Justice Department authorized the use of this technique by the CIA to interrogate suspects. 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