{"id":287,"date":"2004-07-31T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:58:56","slug":"blog-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Blog hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read this interesting article<\/a> on the International Herald Tribune’s website. It talks about the phenomenon of hoax blogs. The Bill Clinton blog mentioned in the story is definitely worth a look (you’ll have to read the IHT article to get the link yourself).<\/p>\n

It’s hilarious. Most of it is plausible, but blog’s achilles heel is the poor writing- in particular the poor grammar. Anyone else, sure, you’d let it slip. But this is Bill Clinton for Pete’s sake. Mr Clinton surely could never write something like:<\/p>\n

“I haven’t slept all night. I couldn’t. I got out of bed at 3 am and played online poker till 7 to ease my mind. I lost 5 dollars. A woman from Wisconsin took the pot. First time I lost to a woman. That’s not true. I lost to Julia Roberts at a game a few years ago in Hollywood. I remember that very well. Julia met Lyle Lovett there that night. She married him a few days later. Her luck ran out.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read this interesting article on the International Herald Tribune’s website. It talks about the phenomenon of hoax blogs. The Bill Clinton blog mentioned in the story is definitely worth a look (you’ll have to read the IHT article to get the link yourself). It’s hilarious. Most of it is plausible, but blog’s achilles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}