{"id":275,"date":"2005-05-15T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/15\/truth\/"},"modified":"2005-05-15T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T06:59:00","slug":"truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/15\/truth\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>&#8220;The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ann Landers hits a very live wire here, because so many lies are dressed up  &#8211; not just wrapped up in other lies, but also wrapped up in social conventions  that let us get away with fooling others and ourselves.  <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lies about the sustainability of the planet.  <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lies about how other people should be raising their children. <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lies about what we can do if &#8220;everyone&#8221; else is doing it.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often convenience replaces truth.  The best dressed lies are the ones we  tell ourselves.  Shouldn&#8217;t we be able to tell ourselves the naked truth?<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1603832936106174\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2007-03-03: Hikmah\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"9911825884\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.&#8221; Ann Landers hits a very live wire here, because so many lies are dressed up &#8211; not just wrapped up in other lies, but also wrapped up in social conventions that let us get away with fooling others and ourselves. Lies about the sustainability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}