{"id":8284,"date":"2011-10-12T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2011-10-12T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:03:56","slug":"republicans-stretch-truth-in-debate-salvos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/12\/republicans-stretch-truth-in-debate-salvos\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Stretch Truth in Debate Salvos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is stretching the truth any different from lying?\u00a0 And since when has the truth had much to do with politics?<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of those odd people for whom truth matters, there is the Bloomberg article <a title=\"Bloomberg article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-10-12\/republican-candidates-stretch-truth-in-debate-salvos-on-jobs-health-care.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Republicans Stretch Truth in Debate Salvos<\/strong><\/a>. Of course, I am not saying that Bloomberg always sticks to the truth either.<\/p>\n<p>There is some truth to the thought that systems involving human beings don&#8217;t just respond to what is true.\u00a0 They also respond to what people perceive to be true.<\/p>\n<p>There is no single lie whose correction I can quote to give you a general sense for the content of the article.\u00a0 The lies and corrections are wide ranging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is stretching the truth any different from lying?\u00a0 And since when has the truth had much to do with politics? If you are one of those odd people for whom truth matters, there is the Bloomberg article Republicans Stretch Truth in Debate Salvos. Of course, I am not saying that Bloomberg always sticks to the [&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":{"0":"post-8284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","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=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}