{"id":2271,"date":"2005-05-17T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T20:57:06","slug":"lileks-spreads-disinformation-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/lileks-spreads-disinformation-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks Spreads Disinformation to Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/05\/0505\/051705.html\" target=\"_new\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have FOUR STAR WARS?&#8221; Gnat asked. &#8220;Wow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are actually five \u2013 well, six. But I sold the first one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because it was an embarrassing piece of tripe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s tripe?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a kind of fish.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone except Lileks, and now his daughter, knows that tripe is cattle guts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too proud to LOUDLY CORRECT MISINFORMATION IN THE MAINSTREAMISH MEDIA!  I am a BLOGGER!  It&#8217;s what I do to feel better about myself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks today: &#8220;You have FOUR STAR WARS?&#8221; Gnat asked. &#8220;Wow.&#8221; There are actually five \u2013 well, six. But I sold the first one. &#8220;Why?&#8221; &#8220;Because it was an embarrassing piece of tripe.&#8221; &#8220;What\u2019s tripe?&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s a kind of fish.&#8221; Everyone except Lileks, and now his daughter, knows that tripe is cattle guts. I&#8217;m not too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20097,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/20097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}