{"id":174479,"date":"2020-12-07T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=174479"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:45:41","slug":"its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled-mark-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled-mark-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the &#8220;greatest humorist the United States has produced,&#8221; and William Faulkner called him &#8220;the father of American literature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mark-twain.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-174480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mark-twain-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mark-twain-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mark-twain.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the &#8220;greatest humorist the United States has produced,&#8221; and William Faulkner called him &#8220;the father of American literature&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":174480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2322,2255],"class_list":["post-174479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-mark-twain","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479","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=174479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}