{"id":4370,"date":"2015-03-18T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2015-03-18T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:02:29","slug":"on-unnecessary-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-unnecessary-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"On Unnecessary Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth is complicated.  Truth is personal.  And truth is important.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are definitely white lies, and truths we feel, yet shouldn&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n<p>For truth to be valuable, it needs to be necessary.  What is an unnecessary truth?  Unnecessary truth, is truth that doesn&#8217;t serve for good, but for ill.  An example of such a truth might be how we think a baby is downright ugly.  What good would come of telling the baby&#8217;s mother?  None.  We&#8217;d injure her with our words, and yes, words cause the worst injuries.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, I won&#8217;t always tell the whole truth as I see it, unless I believe the whole truth is necessary.  Often, it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth is complicated. Truth is personal. And truth is important. However, there are definitely white lies, and truths we feel, yet shouldn&#8217;t tell. For truth to be valuable, it needs to be necessary. What is an unnecessary truth? Unnecessary truth, is truth that doesn&#8217;t serve for good, but for ill. An example of such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[434,443],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-truth","tag-unnecessary-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}