{"id":7472,"date":"2011-09-08T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2011-09-08T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:47:16","slug":"facts-that-strain-personal-incredulity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/08\/facts-that-strain-personal-incredulity\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article <a title=\"Paul Krugman article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/facts-strain-personal-incredulity\/1315319388\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity<\/strong><\/a>, Paul Krugman states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But back to my main point: if you just can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying the things I say, at least consider the possibility that you\u2019re the one who just doesn\u2019t get it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have always had another way of putting it that makes the same point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can&#8217;t imagine something to be true, perhaps it is a problem of your lack of imagination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps I ought to turn this into another one of Greenberg&#8217;s Laws.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what we should really be saying is,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you could give me a few minutes to explain, then perhaps you could imagine it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity, Paul Krugman states: But back to my main point: if you just can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying the things I say, at least consider the possibility that you\u2019re the one who just doesn\u2019t get it. I have always had another way of putting it that makes the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}