{"id":130,"date":"2002-01-02T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-03T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2002-01-02T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-03T02:45:00","slug":"130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.&#8221; &#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin<\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Don&#8217;t believe anything you read. The internet is not to be trusted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">There is saying, &#8220;Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.&#8221; Tonight, driving home, I heard this on the radio, and I thought, being something of a quote junkie, that it might be nice to know who&#8217;d said it. My well-thumbed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/100\/\"><em>Bartlett&#8217;s Famous Quotations<\/em><\/a> was no help, so I turned to that purveyor of misinformation, the internet, and moseyed on over to Google.<font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The quote is attributed, if at all, to John Higdon (sometimes as Higdon&#8217;s Law), Jim Horning, Mark Twain, Rita Mae Brown, Garrison Keillor, Christian Slater, Bob Dylan, &#8220;the great cardiac surgeon, C. Walton Lilihei&#8221;, &#8220;an old Cowboy prayer&#8221;, &#8220;Walter Wriston, banker&#8221;, Brigadier J. W. Lang, Sim\u00c3\u00b3n Bol\u00c3\u00advar, &#8220;a famous American CEO&#8221;, a &#8220;famous Chinese proverb&#8221;, Arthur Jones, John Fullbright, Fred Brooks, Jay B, Anthony Robbins, &#8220;the sage and wisdom of our dear friend Emery&#8221;, Barry LaPatner, Barry <em>Le<\/em>Patner<\/font>, Evan Hardin, and of course, your friend and mine, the most prolific writer of his day, Anonymous.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Like I said, the internet is not to be trusted.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.&#8221; &#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin Don&#8217;t believe anything you read. The internet is not to be trusted. There is saying, &#8220;Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.&#8221; Tonight, driving home, I heard this on the radio, and I thought, being something of a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=130\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}