{"id":11460,"date":"2016-05-06T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2016-05-06T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T04:04:48","slug":"what-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11460","title":{"rendered":"What is Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4964\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicdon-martin.jpg\" alt=\"userpic=don-martin\" width=\"80\" height=\"98\" \/>What is truth? How do we tell black from white? Here are a collection of stories where the truth may not be what you read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Plain Vanilla<\/strong>. When you think of Vanilla, what color comes to mind. White, probably. From the color of vanilla ice cream to vanilla being a synonym for lack of flavor, vanilla is white. Isn&#8217;t it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2014\/03\/23\/291525991\/when-vanilla-was-brown-and-how-we-came-to-see-it-as-white?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160501\">Here&#8217;s the true story<\/a>. It tells how a brown bean, cultivated and pollinated by a technique from a black man, became so white.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Stealing Music<\/strong>. You&#8217;ve seen the articles of late: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.vellumatlanta.com\/2016\/05\/04\/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously\/\">Apple Music will steal your on-disk music, upload it to the cloud, and delete it<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always worried about cloud music; that&#8217;s one reason I stick with my trusty iPod Classic. The last thing I want is iTunes thinking my music is in the cloud and deleting it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/apple-music-deleting-files\/\">Turns out, however, that Apple doesn&#8217;t do this<\/a>. At least for the primary device.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boaty McBoatface<\/strong>. We all heard about that research ship in the UK that was going to be named Boaty McBoatface. Well, it turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/05\/boaty-mcboatface-rrs-sir-david-attenborough-jo-johnson\/\">the Brits decided that was too stupid, and named it after David Attenborough instead<\/a>. Don&#8217;t worry, Boaty fans. The name will be used for an underwater research craft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dieting<\/strong>. Dieting is a funny beast. We&#8217;ve all seen the news this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/beauty\/study-of-biggest-loser-contestants-confirms-just-151305930.html\">Those folks on The Biggest Loser gain it all back<\/a>. This comes on top of news that exercise won&#8217;t help you lose wait. Might as well give up. Perhaps not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-one-day-a-week-diet-20160430-story.html\">It turns out that dieting for just one meal can change everything<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ripening Avocados<\/strong>. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11416\">I shared an article about how you can ripen avocados in the oven<\/a>. The only problem? <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/79470\/can-you-really-ripen-avocado-oven\">Turns out that you can&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is truth? How do we tell black from white? Here are a collection of stories where the truth may not be what you read: Plain Vanilla. When you think of Vanilla, what color comes to mind. White, probably. From the color of vanilla ice cream to vanilla being a synonym for lack of flavor, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11460\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11461,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}