{"id":2038,"date":"2013-05-17T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:12:07","slug":"is-is-is-or-is-is-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"IS &#8220;IS&#8221; &#8220;IS&#8221;?  OR IS &#8220;IS&#8221; &#8220;NOT REALLY&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that title is confusing (though grammatically correct), then you can listen to answers currently given from Washington that take &#8220;IS&#8221; to a whole new level of complexity and gobbledygook (spellchecker didn&#8217;t even bother with that one&#8212;I had to check the dictionary).<\/p>\n<p>BHOB*, you can say what you say you said, but you said what you said.<\/p>\n<p>Truth needs no additives.<\/p>\n<p>Lies need more lies than a few lying additives to make truth.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness exists only as the absence of light.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is light.\u00a0 Lying is darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Any light of truth uncovers lies hidden in darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Extra effort, extra emphasis, to cover lies, reinforces the lies as lies.<\/p>\n<p>Lies simply carry water for the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is from God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Barack Hussein OBama\u2014Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: \u201cBeware of sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that title is confusing (though grammatically correct), then you can listen to answers currently given from Washington that take &#8220;IS&#8221; to a whole new level of complexity and gobbledygook (spellchecker didn&#8217;t even bother with that one&#8212;I had to check the dictionary). BHOB*, you can say what you say you said, but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}