{"id":767,"date":"2023-09-13T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=767"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:03:43","slug":"facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracies converge and stick in clumps<br \/>\nlike burdock burs in fur of ignorance.<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Trust no authorities, they all are chumps!<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\ncry theorists in chorus. . . \u201c<em>Join our dance!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But past the Dunning-Kruger peak I find<br \/>\nthe wisdom of self-questioning and doubt:<br \/>\nOpinon and belief infect my mind<br \/>\nlike any other. I must root it out. . .<\/p>\n<p>I thrash in a furious sea of firm opinions,<br \/>\nsmothered in crashing waves of true belief,<br \/>\nwishing I could fly on reason\u2019s pinions<br \/>\ninto the air of facts, and breathe relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracies converge and stick in clumps like burdock burs in fur of ignorance. \u201cTrust no authorities, they all are chumps!\u201d cry theorists in chorus. . . \u201cJoin our dance!\u201d But past the Dunning-Kruger peak I find the wisdom of self-questioning and doubt: Opinon and belief infect my mind like any<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=767\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}