{"id":1460,"date":"2016-03-08T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2016-03-08T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:07:53","slug":"dubious-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/2016\/03\/08\/dubious-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubious virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I offer this quote from Gordon R Dickson, a venerable SF writer, and a favourite of mine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very appropriate in this age, what with famous tennis players and expense fiddling politicians. When did any misdeed become acceptable, as long as the perpetrator makes a &#8216;frank&#8217; admission when finally caught?<br \/>\nGet it right, you numpties! Don&#8217;t do it in the first place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offer this quote from Gordon R Dickson, a venerable SF writer, and a favourite of mine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very appropriate in this age, what with famous tennis players and expense fiddling politicians. When did any misdeed become acceptable, as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}