{"id":886,"date":"2008-09-02T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:47:10","slug":"the-stages-of-rumordom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"The Stages of Rumordom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2198623\/#whycover\">Mickey Kaus<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/mickeys-got-my.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, a very astute observation of the life of a political rumor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1)<\/strong> Too horrible and shocking; it can&#8217;t possibly be true.<strong><br \/>\n2)<\/strong> It&#8217;s not true.<strong><br \/>\n3) <\/strong>You can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s true.<strong><br \/>\n4)<\/strong> Why are you trying to prove it&#8217;s true? <strong><br \/>\n5)<\/strong> It&#8217;s disgusting that you&#8217;ve proved it&#8217;s true.<strong><br \/>\n6)<\/strong> What&#8217;s the big deal anyway?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mickey Kaus via Andrew Sullivan, a very astute observation of the life of a political rumor: 1) Too horrible and shocking; it can&#8217;t possibly be true. 2) It&#8217;s not true. 3) You can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s true. 4) Why are you trying to prove it&#8217;s true? 5) It&#8217;s disgusting that you&#8217;ve proved it&#8217;s true. 6) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,5,4,52,458],"tags":[58,679,680],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-humor","category-politics","category-scandal-mongering","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-rumors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ei","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}