{"id":36947,"date":"2019-01-24T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36947"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:53:59","slug":"english-democracy-diplomacy-politically-correct-ways-to-describe-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-democracy-diplomacy-politically-correct-ways-to-describe-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"English, democracy, diplomacy: politically correct ways to describe deception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, I love colorful phrases. The tutor shares a great one he noticed, with some commentary.<\/h2>\n<table class=\"jan24_mobile\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Era<\/th>\n<th style=\"white-space: wrap;\">Diplomatic Description of Deceit<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>90s<\/td>\n<td>creativity w\/ facts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20teens<\/td>\n<td>reality distortion field<sup>1<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Nowadays, it seems, diplomacy is everything. The reason? I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s because democracy continues to grow. Even the truth, it seems, is &#8220;whatever people want it to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In such a context, one must phrase a suggestion that the whole truth is lacking, in a creative, appealing way. After all, speaking from within a &#8220;reality distortion field,&#8221; the provider of the &#8220;incomplete truth&#8221; really isn&#8217;t responsible. Right?<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/internet\/web\/html5-what-is-it-1047393\">techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, I love colorful phrases. The tutor shares a great one he noticed, with some commentary. Era Diplomatic Description of Deceit 90s creativity w\/ facts 20teens reality distortion field1 Nowadays, it seems, diplomacy is everything. The reason? I&#8217;d say &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-democracy-diplomacy-politically-correct-ways-to-describe-deception\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, democracy, diplomacy: politically correct ways to describe deception<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2952],"tags":[2951],"class_list":["post-36947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","tag-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36947"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36962,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36947\/revisions\/36962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}