{"id":2549,"date":"2020-04-25T04:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/04\/25\/the-art-of-debating-is-one-that\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:42:15","slug":"the-art-of-debating-is-one-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/04\/25\/the-art-of-debating-is-one-that\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe art of debating is one that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet-body\">\u201cThe art of debating is one that rewards liars and bullies, is about beating the opponent rather than finding the truth, and is structurally biased in favour of conservative bromides rather than surprising new ideas\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/p\/bbc9d\/stw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.theguardian.com\/p\/bbc9d\/stw<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe art of debating is one that rewards liars and bullies, is about beating the opponent rather than finding the truth, and is structurally biased in favour of conservative bromides rather than surprising new ideas\u201d www.theguardian.com\/p\/bbc9d\/stw <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/04\/25\/the-art-of-debating-is-one-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-tweet","post_format-post-format-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}