{"id":1800,"date":"2020-03-22T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2020-03-22T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:19:57","slug":"you-cant-fool-all-the-people-or-maybe-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Fool All the People \u2014 or Maybe You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was talking to someone (at a social distance) a few days ago and they believed that the government was doing an excellent job of managing the coronavirus crisis. You can count me in the group that believes it <em>might<\/em> have been possible to screw it up worse, but I\u2019m not sure\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham Lincoln said, \u201cYou can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can\u2019t fool all the people all of the time\u201d \u2014 I used believe that \u2014 now, I\u2019m not so sure. It appears that in some groups of people, <em>all<\/em> the people in that group <em>can<\/em> be fooled <em>all<\/em> the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t meant to be critical, only an observation on my part. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion \u2014 that\u2019s a right guaranteed by the constitution. But everyone has an individual obligation to form that opinion by gathering the facts (from every available source) and not accepting something that someone else \u201ctells\u201d you.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to someone (at a social distance) a few days ago and they believed that the government was doing an excellent job of managing the coronavirus crisis. You can count me in the group that believes it might &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}