{"id":256,"date":"2018-07-14T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2018-07-14T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:59:05","slug":"political-chaos-is-connected-with-the-decay-of-language-george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/2018\/07\/14\/political-chaos-is-connected-with-the-decay-of-language-george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Political chaos is connected with the decay of language\u201d &#8211; George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michiko Kakutani\u2019s new book &#8216;The Death of Truth&#8217; explores &#8216;truth decay&#8217;, the Rashomon-effect, dezinformatsiya, hypernormalisation, predictions of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and George Orwell&#8217;s warnings against the corrosion of language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jul\/14\/the-death-of-truth-how-we-gave-up-on-facts-and-ended-up-with-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/foliosociety_1984_31-e1531571980798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIllustration by Jonathan Burton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michiko Kakutani\u2019s new book &#8216;The Death of Truth&#8217; explores &#8216;truth decay&#8217;, the Rashomon-effect, dezinformatsiya, hypernormalisation, predictions of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and George Orwell&#8217;s warnings against the corrosion of language. Illustration by Jonathan Burton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,303,297,299,298,295,307,305,296,306,294,304,241,301,300,302],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-commedia-dellarte","tag-death-of-truth","tag-dezinformatsiya","tag-gaslighting","tag-george-orwell","tag-hannah-arendt","tag-hypernormalisation","tag-jonathan-burton","tag-language","tag-michiko-kakutani","tag-moliere","tag-perspective","tag-rashomon-effect","tag-tom-wolfe","tag-truth","loop-entry clr boxed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellymcerlean.com\/storyfort\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}