{"id":30399,"date":"2017-06-16T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=30399"},"modified":"2017-06-16T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:00:13","slug":"us-election-meddling-smoke-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=30399","title":{"rendered":"US Election Meddling: Smoke and Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-election-meddling-smoke-and-mirrors\/5594921'>http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-election-meddling-smoke-and-mirrors\/5594921<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1497002180373_2063\"><em>For a magician, the greater the illusion attempted, the more showmanship that\u2019s required to distract audiences from that fact that it is indeed just an illusion. For US politics, something very similar applies, particularly regarding the latest, ongoing narrative surrounding <\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-election-meddling-smoke-and-mirrors\/5594921'>http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-election-meddling-smoke-and-mirrors\/5594921<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1497002180373_2063\"><em>For a magician, the greater the illusion attempted, the more showmanship that\u2019s required to distract audiences from that fact that it is indeed just an illusion. For US politics, something very similar applies, particularly regarding the latest, ongoing narrative surrounding <\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}