{"id":8457,"date":"2017-06-23T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbarkley.com\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:09:25","slug":"distorting-truth-elaine-l-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbarkley.com\/2017\/06\/23\/distorting-truth-elaine-l-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorting Truth | Elaine L. Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8458 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Elaine L. Graham\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?resize=75%2C75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?resize=166%2C166&ssl=1 166w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?resize=768%2C768&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/graham-e1488564523141.jpg?fit=1563%2C1563&ssl=1 1563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Those who reduce ‘truth’ to their own image actually distort that inherent complexity and heterogeneity of human experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Graham,\u00a0<em>Transforming Practice<\/em>, 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who reduce ‘truth’ to their own image actually distort that inherent complexity and heterogeneity of human experience. \u2014 Graham,\u00a0Transforming Practice, 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2286,2279,874,2285,328,2014],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekend-wisdom","tag-complexity","tag-elaine-l-graham","tag-experience","tag-image","tag-truth","tag-wipf-and-stock"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Distorting Truth | Elaine L. 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