{"id":188195,"date":"2010-11-17T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/17\/huh-i-never-posted-the-definition-of-saroffs-rule\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:40:00","slug":"huh-i-never-posted-the-definition-of-saroffs-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/17\/huh-i-never-posted-the-definition-of-saroffs-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Huh, I Never Posted The Definition of &#8220;Saroff&#8217;s Rule&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I post occasionally about what I call &#8220;Saroff&#8217;s Rule,&#8221; I realized that I have never posted the definition explicitly, at least not in a post of its own, so here goes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>If a financial transaction is complex enough to require that a news organization use a cartoon to explain it, its purpose is to deceive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I post occasionally about what I call &#8220;Saroff&#8217;s Rule,&#8221; I realized that I have never posted the definition explicitly, at least not in a post of its own, so here goes: If a financial transaction is complex enough to require that a news organization use a cartoon to explain it, its purpose is to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1118,1073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-meta","category-saroffs-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}