{"id":14149,"date":"2015-01-04T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14149"},"modified":"2015-01-03T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:51:48","slug":"when-you-find-a-contradiction-in-a-book-you-cannot-trust-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/when-you-find-a-contradiction-in-a-book-you-cannot-trust-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Find A Contradiction In A Book, You Cannot Trust It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it goes: You&#8217;re reading a book, and it says something, and a couple of pages later it says the exact opposite, so you can&#8217;t trust anything it says at all.<\/p>\n<p>For example, today I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670011215\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0670011215&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Simms Taback&#8217;s Great Big Book of Spacey, Snakey, Buggy Riddles<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0670011215&#038;asins=0670011215&#038;linkId=DHNE5UISJC4LFRWT&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And one riddle is:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/riddle1.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>And a couple pages later, another riddle is:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/riddle2.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Both of these things cannot be true.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wake up, sheeple!  This is how they break down the minds of your children: By presenting riddles that compel your child to hold two contrary ideas in mind at once and\/or to not recognize or object when two opposing assertions appear and are presented as TRUE!<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I take things too seriously.  Or lack a sense of humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it goes: You&#8217;re reading a book, and it says something, and a couple of pages later it says the exact opposite, so you can&#8217;t trust anything it says at all. For example, today I was reading Simms Taback&#8217;s Great Big Book of Spacey, Snakey, Buggy Riddles. And one riddle is: And a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14152,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions\/14152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}