{"id":1997,"date":"2010-08-25T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:08:39","slug":"a-guide-to-what-isn%e2%80%99t-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/a-guide-to-what-isn%e2%80%99t-true\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to What Isn\u2019t True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would introduce you to that blog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.america.gov\">america.gov<\/a> and is penned (so to speak) by Todd Leventhal, who &#8220;bikes to work year-round&#8221; as the State &#8220;Department\u2019s expert on conspiracy theories and misinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the last paragraph of a short post titled <a href='http:\/\/blogs.america.gov\/rumors\/2009\/08\/21\/the-obama-birth-controversy\/'>The Obama Birth Controversy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html\">FactCheck.org<\/a> determined that Obama was originally both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies from 1961 to 1963 because his father was from Kenya, which gained its independence from the British Empire in 1963, then both a U.S. and Kenyan citizen from 1963 to 1982, and solely a U.S. citizen after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What happened to the President&#8217;s British and Kenyan citizenships?<\/p>\n<p>Hey. Don&#8217;t go calling me a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories\">&#8220;birther&#8221;<\/a> now! \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just askin&#8217;. I&#8217;m just curious how citizenships are shed. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Unlike Mr. Leventhal, <b>I walk to work year-round<\/b>! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would introduce you to that blog. It&#8217;s at america.gov and is penned (so to speak) by Todd Leventhal, who &#8220;bikes to work year-round&#8221; as the State &#8220;Department\u2019s expert on conspiracy theories and misinformation.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the last paragraph of a short post titled The Obama Birth Controversy: Interestingly, FactCheck.org determined that Obama was &#8230; <a title=\"A Guide to What Isn\u2019t True\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/a-guide-to-what-isn%e2%80%99t-true\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Guide to What Isn\u2019t True\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-suspension-of-disbelief","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-wd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}