{"id":12377,"date":"2018-06-20T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12377"},"modified":"2018-06-20T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:16:18","slug":"if-it-were-possible-to-enforce-a-ban-on-lying-a-ghastly-silence-would-fall-over-the-city-of-washington-thomas-sowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/if-it-were-possible-to-enforce-a-ban-on-lying-a-ghastly-silence-would-fall-over-the-city-of-washington-thomas-sowell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf It were possible to enforce a ban on lying , a ghastly silence would fall over the city of Washington.\u201d  ~ Thomas Sowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12382\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/us-capitol-east-front-sunny-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12382\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/us-capitol-east-front-sunny-day-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/us-capitol-east-front-sunny-day-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/us-capitol-east-front-sunny-day-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/us-capitol-east-front-sunny-day.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo, WashingtonDC.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf It were possible to enforce a ban on lying , a ghastly silence would fall over the city of Washington.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n~ Thomas Sowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cIf It were possible to enforce a ban on lying , a ghastly silence would fall over the city of Washington.\u201d ~ Thomas Sowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12383,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions\/12383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}