{"id":1614,"date":"2006-10-17T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2006-10-17T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:12:50","slug":"rumors-vs-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/rumors-vs-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors vs Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gossip is good for social networks; gossip is about how we connect to each other. Rumors are not bad but they are instead probes for facts &#8212; as in &#8220;I heard that &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This from Gossip and rumor expert, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rit.edu\/~nxdgss\/\">Nicholas DiFonzo<\/a>, whose book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.apa.org\/books.cfm?id=4316079\">Rumor Psychology<\/a> gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/10\/17\/psychology_of_rumors.html\">a brief review on BoingBoing with some good links.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I heard that when he was in grad school DiFonzo wore even bigger glasses. Could that be true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gossip is good for social networks; gossip is about how we connect to each other. Rumors are not bad but they are instead probes for facts &#8212; as in &#8220;I heard that &#8230;&#8221; This from Gossip and rumor expert, Nicholas DiFonzo, whose book Rumor Psychology gets a brief review on BoingBoing with some good links. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}