{"id":12545,"date":"2018-11-20T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:16:19","slug":"rationalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12545","title":{"rendered":"Rationalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=12546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12546\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12546\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=12546\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?fit=3000%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1538841400&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"560559400.512602\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?fit=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12546\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=377%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=250%2C167&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?resize=900%2C600&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/560559400.512602.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jim Geraghty, National Review<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Years ago during the dotcom boom Gary D. and I invented a web business called <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1837\">WeJustifyAnything.org<\/a>\u00a0 The need hardly exists because most people can do the justifying themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their interests. Jim Geraghty, National Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-12545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-weekly-maxim","tag-maxim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}