{"id":1193,"date":"2009-06-03T07:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T07:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:38:42","slug":"truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Truth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? <strong>What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney<\/strong>? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Vida Winter, <em>The Thirteenth Tale <\/em>by Diane Setterfield<\/p>\n<p>[emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucyshih\/3541908072\/in\/photostream\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/truth.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}