{"id":7356,"date":"2009-04-10T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2009-04-10T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:18:59","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7356","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/10\/world\/africa\/10zimbabwe.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HARARE, Zimbabwe \u2014 President Robert Mugabe\u2019s top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr. Mugabe\u2019s party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/globalinvestmentwatch.com\/2009\/04\/10\/human-rights-today-41009\/\">Global Investment Watch<\/a> and Elkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: HARARE, Zimbabwe \u2014 President Robert Mugabe\u2019s top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}