{"id":20072,"date":"2025-07-17T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2025-07-06T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:00:22","slug":"the-truth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20072","title":{"rendered":"The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" data-attachment-id=\"20010\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20010\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?fit=1500%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1749816460&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00089766606822262&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3445\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?fit=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20010\" style=\"width:465px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIt takes a lie to cover a lie, but the truth will stand alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Gene Brogdon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another of the flowers of Maine. Gene and I have been friends for more than fifty years. He often quotes Uncle Bill and his Dad, and I quote Gene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt takes a lie to cover a lie, but the truth will stand alone.\u201d Gene Brogdon Another of the flowers of Maine. Gene and I have been friends for more than fifty years. He often quotes Uncle Bill and his Dad, and I quote Gene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20010,"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":[8],"tags":[41,61],"class_list":["post-20072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","tag-flowers","tag-maxim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3445.jpeg?fit=1500%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072","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=20072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20073,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions\/20073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}