{"id":1041,"date":"2004-01-21T01:37:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/01\/21\/on_deception.html"},"modified":"2004-01-21T01:37:23","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T01:37:23","slug":"on_deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/01\/21\/on_deception.html","title":{"rendered":"on deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When i was 14, i learned what it meant to be deceived by someone i loved.  I saw lie after lie unfold in front of me in complete horror.  It clicked and, since then, lying is about the biggest sin you can commit in a personal relationship with me.  I&#8217;ve always told friends and lovers that i can get over cheating\/chaos\/anything, but i can&#8217;t get over lying, so just don&#8217;t magnify stupidity with cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>Deception has so many levels.  All too often, people lie to themselves, convince themselves of their lies and by the time they lie to you, they genuinely don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a lie.  (Anyone see the State of the Union?)  It&#8217;s all a matter of perspective, right?  I&#8217;m certainly not innocent of this.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something so painfully demoralizing about feeling enthusiasm fade to exhaustion as the pieces of an intricate web of deception through avoiding the truth unfold.  It&#8217;s not as cruel as an intentional lie, but it&#8217;s impossible to feel any form of trust or respect at the other end.  ::sigh::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When i was 14, i learned what it meant to be deceived by someone i loved. I saw lie after lie unfold in front of me in complete horror. It clicked and, since then, lying is about the biggest sin you can commit in a personal relationship with me. I&#8217;ve always told friends and lovers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}