{"id":41,"date":"2006-09-03T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","slug":"the-art-of-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"The art of lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 14 British troops were killed yesterday when a Nimrod plane crashed in Afgantistan.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD (Ministry of Deception) were very quick to dismiss claims that Taliban forces shot it down with a Stinger missile.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Des Brown: &quot;Frankly the Taliban regularly make claims which we know to be untrue and I think in this case this is instructive of the nature of their dishonesty and I think it&#039;s an object lesson for the media of the world to the extent at which they are prepared to lie in order to generate propaganda&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Narurally, the British government would never stoop to such depths as to lie in order to generate propaganda. Remember WMD? Remember what the hell we&#039;re doing in Afganistan in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 14 British troops were killed yesterday when a Nimrod plane crashed in Afgantistan. The MoD (Ministry of Deception) were very quick to dismiss claims that Taliban forces shot it down with a Stinger missile. Enter Des Brown: &quot;Frankly the Taliban regularly make claims which we know to be untrue and I think in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}