{"id":4731,"date":"2019-01-31T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:16:45","slug":"thur-jan-31-2019-look-over-here-shiny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/01\/31\/thur-jan-31-2019-look-over-here-shiny-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. Jan. 31, 2019 &#8211; look over here!  Shiny thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 49F and a bit drier than normal at 85%RH. Supposed to have no rain until later, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me that the public is being bombarded with the outrage of the day, and one tempest in a teapot after another, while major changes are ignored.  This is not a NEW thing, and many have commented about it here, and elsewhere.    Their tactics WORK, however and we need to keep taking a step back and asking &#8220;What AREN&#8217;T we seeing?&#8221;  They also like to be right, and to cover their @sses.  They will often report the important truth, without comment or explanation, so that they can later say &#8220;we reported this last year, and look- we were right!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep asking the question, &#8220;What isn&#8217;t being reported?&#8221;  &#8220;Why are they showing us THIS thing?&#8221;  &#8220;Why NOW?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone elsewhere recently pointed out &#8220;What&#8217;s on the news, isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay frosty my friends.  Repetition, outrage, lies, and misdirection WORK.<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 49F and a bit drier than normal at 85%RH. Supposed to have no rain until later, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me that the public is being bombarded with the outrage of the day, and one tempest in a teapot after another, while major changes are ignored.  This is not a NEW thing, and many have commented about it here, and elsewhere.    Their tactics WORK, however and we need to keep taking a step back and asking &#8220;What AREN&#8217;T we seeing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/01\/31\/thur-jan-31-2019-look-over-here-shiny-thing\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. Jan. 31, 2019 &#8211; look over here!  Shiny thing! &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}