{"id":33018,"date":"2022-03-18T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33018"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:06:38","slug":"emperors-of-lies-my-latest-reader-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33018","title":{"rendered":"Emperors of lies &#8211; my latest Reader column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/120\/981\/120981\/header_1080x\/20673_51930301916_8570ca2878_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:    <\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin says the West is an \u201cempire of lies.\u201d If this is so, a lot of them sprang from Putin\u2019s thought police and Internet trolls. Even Putin\u2019s top diplomat, the leaden-faced Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, blamed a Ukrainian maternity hospital\u2019s bombing on \u201cNazis.\u201d   <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2022\/03\/17\/120981-emperors-of-lies\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins: Vladimir Putin says the West is an \u201cempire of lies.\u201d If this is so, a lot of them sprang from Putin\u2019s thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,86,85,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33020,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions\/33020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}