{"id":26613,"date":"2015-08-04T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26613"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T01:49:51","slug":"qotd-the-truth-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/qotd-the-truth-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Truth-Seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man&#8217;s bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker&#8217;s grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell. <\/p>\n<p>H.L. Mencken, &#8220;Types of Men 10: The Truth-Seeker&#8221;, <em>Prejudices, Third Series<\/em>, 1922.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man&#8217;s bitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-26613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-hlmencken"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26614,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26613\/revisions\/26614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}