{"id":10871,"date":"2008-01-10T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/10\/10871.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:46","slug":"thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/10\/thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apropos of The Clinton Moment and of Benjamin Rosenbaum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminrosenbaum.com\/blog\/archives\/2008_01.html\">Corrolaries to Sturgeon&#8217;s Revelation<\/a>, please remember that however smart, perceptive, humane, analytical, wise, empathic or just fucking magical you are, you cannot reliably judge whether somebody is telling the truth. Particularly on television. Particularly somebody who is practiced at self-control and self-presentation. 90% of your judgments may be right, but you have no way of knowing which ones. And you are far more likely to be one of the 90% of people who are right only 10% of the time.<br \/>\n<p>That applies to politicians, to actors, to advertisers and advertisements, to writers and men in the street, to people being interviewed and people interviewing them. You can be fooled. You can be fooled. You can be fooled.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger includes himself in the rhetorical <I>you<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18220,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions\/18220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}