{"id":326,"date":"2010-09-14T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T22:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2010-10-03T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T20:21:50","slug":"doublespeak-and-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Doublespeak and Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Corn Refiners Assocation wants to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup\u00c2\u00a0because evidence that it&#8217;s bad for us is hurting sales:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/food-hfcs-name-changed-to-corn-sugar\/\">http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/food-hfcs-name-changed-to-corn-sugar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, when the facts and consumer sentiment are against you, what is a poor, misunderstood oligopoly to do?<\/p>\n<p>The answer: obfuscate!<\/p>\n<p>Surely, in wonderfully Orwellian style, a name change will take care of matters. 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Surely, in wonderfully Orwellian style, a name change will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-5g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":626,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=626","url_meta":{"origin":326,"position":0},"title":"165 euphemisms for sex","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"February 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/amog.com\/lifestyle\/sex-euphemisms\/ How do you say you had sex? 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