{"id":7100,"date":"2011-02-20T18:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2011-02-20T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:36:50","slug":"tailgate-truisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/tailgate-truisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgate truisms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7101\" title=\"tailgate_truisms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/tailgate_truisms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7102\" title=\"truisms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/truisms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/tailgate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7103\" title=\"tailgate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/tailgate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Edmonton, Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Truth is where you find it\u2026 and sometimes in the most unexpected of places\u2014such as the tailgate of this beat-up pickup truck that I encountered a few years back while in Edmonton (capital of Alberta, Canada\u2019s equivalent to Texas\u2014with cowboys, red-necks, and rig-pigs* from the oil industry in the majority) to give a lecture at the University of Alberta. Pleasant surprises and \u201cexceptions to the rule\u201d are thankfully everywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">*Seriously. That\u2019s what these guys call<em> themselves.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton, Alberta Truth is where you find it\u2026 and sometimes in the most unexpected of places\u2014such as the tailgate of this beat-up pickup truck that I encountered a few years back while in Edmonton (capital of Alberta, Canada\u2019s equivalent to Texas\u2014with cowboys, red-necks, and rig-pigs* from the oil industry in the majority) to give a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,11,12,13,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}