{"id":137,"date":"2013-10-09T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/?p=137"},"modified":"2013-10-09T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:57:11","slug":"137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/2013\/10\/09\/137\/","title":{"rendered":"Would I Lie to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I mentioned my childhood &#038; how <em>The Spirit Keeper<\/em> is actually a true story based on my own (peculiar) personal experience.  Some readers might point out this sort of claim makes me look like a pathological liar, while others might insist I\u2019m speaking allegorically, but I\u2019m good either way.  As far as I can see, those two assertions are basically saying the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>When, as a girl, I got carried away by Indian stories, I never questioned the truth of those tales.  Years later, after decades of exhaustive research, I came to find out that most of the things written about historic Indians were just theories, deductions, &#038; suppositions\u2014which are, I believe, all polite ways of saying \u201clies.\u201d  Lies, by definition, cannot be true.  Therefore, pretty much everything I\u2019ve ever read about historic Indians amounts to little more than lies.<\/p>\n<p>Lies are bad, aren\u2019t they?  I mean, nobody likes being lied to, right?  Which I think is weird, because the #1 person most people lie to is themselves, but I guess it&#8217;s none of my business what you do in the privacy of your own head.  On the other hand, apparently I\u2019ve made it everybody\u2019s business what happens in <em>my<\/em> head because I put it in the pages of a book, &#038; I suppose this is why I\u2019ve been urged to come clean, \u2018fess up, &#038; make clear what is true in my story, what is a lie, &#038; what it all means.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that\u2019s a lie.  What I\u2019ve been told is that my book is just another cheap historical romance &#038; I shouldn\u2019t get so worked up &#038; defensive about it, but I say potato, you say potato.  Um, that sounded way better in my head than it looks in writing.  Is it too late to call this whole thing off?<\/p>\n<p>All I\u2019m saying is, truth seems to be very subjective &#038; I can\u2019t for the life of me figure out why so many people argue about it so much.  <em>The Spirit Keeper<\/em> is pure fiction, which makes it a complete lie, but, then again, it\u2019s also a complete allegory, which makes it something like pure truth.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m good either way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I mentioned my childhood &#038; how The Spirit Keeper is actually a true story based on my own (peculiar) personal experience. Some readers might point out this sort of claim makes me look like a pathological liar, while others might insist I\u2019m speaking allegorically, but I\u2019m good either way. As far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}