{"id":1683,"date":"2010-03-31T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/31\/understatement-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:42:46","slug":"understatement-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/31\/understatement-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Understatement of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p> Further assessment \u2013 this took longer than I should have spent on it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Above is the last sentence in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/analysis-was-the-notorious-racist-tea-party-sign-forged-we-believe-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long, detailed explanation<\/a> with electronic images of why the author (Mediate\u2019s Philip Bump) thinks the now infamous photo of Tea Party founder Dale Robertson is <em>not<\/em> a fake.&#160; Robertson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/tea-party-leader-that-claimed-no-slurs-now-famous-for-n-word-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\">had said he never seen<\/a> examples of racism at Tea party events.&#160; Then this photo of him was circulated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef01311002c39e970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"teapartypic\" border=\"0\" alt=\"teapartypic\" src=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef0133ec5cb7a8970b-pi\" width=\"194\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s media environment, just by spending so much time and energy debunking the myth that it\u2019s a fake reinforces the message that it\u2019s a fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further assessment \u2013 this took longer than I should have spent on it. Above is the last sentence in a long, detailed explanation with electronic images of why the author (Mediate\u2019s Philip Bump) thinks the now infamous photo of Tea Party founder Dale Robertson is not a fake.&#160; Robertson had said he never seen examples&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/31\/understatement-of-the-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136,184,27,121,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}