{"id":8992,"date":"2014-04-07T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2014-04-07T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T10:54:08","slug":"toddlers-know-the-truth-until-theyre-talked-out-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"Toddlers Know the Truth\u2026 Until They\u2019re Talked out of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m hardly the first person to recognize that basic truths are more easily grasped by the young and the uneducated. For example, here\u2019s a passage from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Peter Carr in 1787:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ncrenegade.com\/editorial\/toddlers-know-the-truth-until-theyre-talked-out-of-it\/#comment-32254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ncrenegade.com\/editorial\/toddlers-know-the-truth-until-theyre-talked-out-of-it\/#comment-32254<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m hardly the first person to recognize that basic truths are more easily grasped by the young and the uneducated. For example, here\u2019s a passage from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Peter Carr in 1787: http:\/\/ncrenegade.com\/editorial\/toddlers-know-the-truth-until-theyre-talked-out-of-it\/#comment-32254<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}