{"id":942,"date":"2012-04-30T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=942"},"modified":"2012-04-30T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:58:57","slug":"tools-to-block-political-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/tools-to-block-political-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to block political BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-spot-b.s.-political-story-in-under-10-seconds\">http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-spot-b.s.-political-story-in-under-10-seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend reading the whole article, but for those of you too busy (or lazy) to read it, here are the highlights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>#5. The Headline Contains the Word &#8220;Gaffe&#8221;<br \/>\n#4. The Headline Ends in a Question Mark<br \/>\n#3. The Headline Contains the Word &#8220;Blasts&#8221;<br \/>\n#2. The Headline Is About a &#8220;Lawmaker&#8221; Saying Something Stupid<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n#1. The Headline Includes the Phrase &#8220;Blow To&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since it appears that the whole point of modern political reporting is to amplify the left and right&#8217;s need to suppress the moderate and independent voter by drowning them in bullshit, this article serves as a handy guide for those who still want to read the &#8220;only 17 percent of stories are about stuff that matters&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-spot-b.s.-political-story-in-under-10-seconds I highly recommend reading the whole article, but for those of you too busy (or lazy) to read it, here are the highlights&#8230; #5. The Headline Contains the Word &#8220;Gaffe&#8221; #4. The Headline Ends in a Question Mark #3. The Headline Contains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/tools-to-block-political-bs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tools to block political BS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}