{"id":1205,"date":"2004-05-24T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2004-05-24T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T16:24:30","slug":"the-littlest-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"the littlest lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush falling off his bicycle inspired all the obvious jokes about training wheels — it is a telling comment on his record that these jokes should seem so obvious — but also a quite fascinating lie. The press spokesdroid claimed he slipped on earth which had been loosened by recent rain. Now, it turns out that the inhabitants of Crawford would know this is a lie, because it only rained properly one day this month: what interests me is that this information is publicly available, and various bloggers<\/a> checked the rainfall records for that part of Texas to nail the lie the very day it was told. Sometimes, the Internet really does help us get our own back, even though the story won’t have much impact until it is put in the newspapers. To lie about something so small, and so pointless, says a great deal about thier attitudes to power..<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush falling off his bicycle inspired all the obvious jokes about training wheels — it is a telling comment on his record that these jokes should seem so obvious — but also a quite fascinating lie. The press spokesdroid claimed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}