{"id":6059,"date":"2011-06-14T23:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2011-06-14T23:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:04:50","slug":"there-is-no-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/there-is-no-spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No S&#039;Poon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland said Monday he&#8217;s sorry for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger who offered vivid accounts of life amid revolt and repression in Damascus, a hoax that has exposed the difficulty of sifting truth from fiction online.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPaula Brooks of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com, which encouraged Amina and republished her blog entries, said she feels like a &#8220;patsy.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLater Monday, The Washington Post reported that an editor of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com \u2014 who encouraged Arraf and republished her blog entries \u2014 was a man named Bill Graber who used the name Paula Brooks as an online persona.<\/p>\n<p>Both quotes via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110613\/ap_on_re_eu\/syria_blogger_s_identity\">2nd lesbian blogger revealed as man &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m beginning to think that Lesbians are just the imaginary girlfriends of repressed gay men living as straight men, proving that deep down, no deeper, they&#8217;re all straight after all.<br \/>\nProblem solved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6059\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6059\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:<\/p>\n<p> LONDON (AP) \u2014 A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland said Monday he&#8217;s sorry for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger who offered vivid accounts of life amid revolt and repression in Damascus, a hoax that has exposed the difficulty of sifting truth from fiction online.<br \/> &#8230;<br \/> Paula Brooks of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com, which encouraged Amina and republished her blog entries, said she feels like a &#8220;patsy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:<\/p>\n<p> Later Monday, The Washington Post reported that an editor of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com \u2014 who encouraged Arraf and republished her blog entries \u2014 was a man &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/there-is-no-spoon\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}