{"id":107593,"date":"2018-04-09T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=107593"},"modified":"2018-03-25T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T14:33:15","slug":"the-whole-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/the-whole-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone was walking alongside the devil. The person in front of them bent down and picked something up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did he find?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;A piece of the truth,&#8221; the devil answered. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t that upset you?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Not at all,&#8221; the devil replied, &#8220;soon I will make him believe that he has found the whole truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seek the company of those who are searching for the truth, but avoid those who have found it.&#8221; &#8212; Vaclav Havel<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dietrich-Dieter-Fischer-e1510135945622.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-101253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dietrich-Dieter-Fischer-e1510135945622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seek the company of those who are searching for the truth, but avoid those who have found it.&#8221; &#8212; Vaclav Havel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}