{"id":334,"date":"2002-09-23T21:49:32","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-334.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"they-lie-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/09\/23\/they-lie-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They lie a lot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/sept0203.html#092002245am\">Joshua Micah Marshall:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The more ardent supporters of regime change lie a lot. I really don&#8217;t know how else to put it. I&#8217;m not talking about disagreements over interpretation. I mean people saying things they either know to be false or have no reason to believe are true. Perhaps the word &#8216;lie&#8217; is a very slight exaggeration. Perhaps it&#8217;s better to say they have a marked propensity to assert as fact points for which there is virtually or absolutely no evidence. How&#8217;s that?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/electrolite\/archives\/2002_09.html#001453\">Patrick Nielsen Hayden<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Micah Marshall: &#8220;The more ardent supporters of regime change lie a lot. I really don&#8217;t know how else to put it. I&#8217;m not talking about disagreements over interpretation. I mean people saying things they either know to be false or have no reason to believe are true. Perhaps the word &#8216;lie&#8217; is a very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/09\/23\/they-lie-a-lot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;They lie a lot&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_and_economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}