{"id":561,"date":"2006-09-05T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-11-29T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T09:48:41","slug":"but-only-nearly-as-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/09\/05\/but-only-nearly-as-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"But only nearly as strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>It comes as the Revealer. Showing that no society can protect, never could\u2014they are as foolish as shields of paper. They have lied to us. They can\u2019t keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have They ever given us in return for the trust, the love\u2014They actually say \u2018love\u2019\u2014we\u2019re supposed to owe Them. Can They even keep us from catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can\u2019t believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Thomas Pynchon, Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes as the Revealer. Showing that no society can protect, never could\u2014they are as foolish as shields of paper. They have lied to us. They can\u2019t keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have They ever given us in return for the trust, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-93","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}