{"id":4187,"date":"2003-01-22T06:54:05","date_gmt":"2003-01-22T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2003-01-22T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2003-01-22T11:54:05","slug":"rhetorical_ques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/22\/rhetorical_ques.html","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conversational Terrorism<\/a> page focuses on various rhetorical techniques that folks use (sometimes unintentionally, sometimes far too intentionally) to win arguments, at the expense of discussing the truth. Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Conversational Terrorism page focuses on various rhetorical techniques that folks use (sometimes unintentionally, sometimes far too intentionally) to win arguments, at the expense of discussing the truth. Interesting stuff….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/27\/conversational.html","url_meta":{"origin":4187,"position":0},"title":"Conversational Terrorism","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Mar-03 9:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Being a compendium of rhetorical dirty tricks that people use to unfairly win arguments. 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