{"id":47704,"date":"2021-02-21T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/opendemocracyuk\/why-truth-too-weak-stop-liar-boris-johnson\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T08:00:06","slug":"why-truth-is-too-weak-to-stop-a-liar-like-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/why-truth-is-too-weak-to-stop-a-liar-like-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Why truth is too weak to stop a liar like Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Oborne writes of \u2018the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought\u2019. But it\u2019s not just an assumption \u2013 it\u2019s real<\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opendemocracy\/~4\/-CvL58nHq8Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/opendemocracy\/~3\/-CvL58nHq8Q\/\">openDemocracy RSS<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Oborne writes of \u2018the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought\u2019. But it\u2019s not just an assumption \u2013 it\u2019s real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47705,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47704\/revisions\/47705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}