{"id":1504,"date":"2018-08-30T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:52:19","slug":"ny-archdiocese-director-of-public-policy-the-truth-is-our-most-important-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"NY Archdiocese Director of Public Policy: &#8221; The Truth is Our Most Important Ally&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Another to the point, dead on analysis by Ed Mechmann. Takes six or seven minutes to read. The link is the last paragraph of Ed&#39;s posting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archny.org\/news\/the-truth-is-our-most-important-ally\">One thing is perfectly clear &#8212; in all of this, the truth is our most important ally. We are in a burgeoning crisis, and time is short. We have to get past politics, personalities, self-preservation, ideologies, agendas, fear of legal liability and personal embarrassment, and get to the truth. The truth is all that matters. After all, we have it on good authority that &quot;the truth will set you free&quot;. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another to the point, dead on analysis by Ed Mechmann. Takes six or seven minutes to read. The link is the last paragraph of Ed&#39;s posting. One thing is perfectly clear &#8212; in all of this, the truth is our most important ally. We are in a burgeoning crisis, and time is short. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}