{"id":4878,"date":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","slug":"struth-dial-a-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/11\/struth-dial-a-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH &#8211; Dial a Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SzM1j93wGHI\/AAAAAAAAHvA\/wDgG2XG3pr4\/s1600-h\/Dalai+Lama+Resized-747168.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418733668676933746\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SzM1j93wGHI\/AAAAAAAAHvA\/wDgG2XG3pr4\/s320\/Dalai+Lama+Resized-747168.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>STRUTH !<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it&#8217;s easy to see why journalists seeking a quick scoop should take a moment to check the facts.<\/p>\n<p>When a recent radio news report in Johannesburg said the Dalai Lama was reportedly seen in rural\u00a0South Africa and speculated he was on a secret mission to was to seek South African government support, a suspicious local newspaper went to the town in which the holy man was supposedly staying during his &#8220;negotiations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As our photo shows, the radio station should have taken the same investigative response as the newspaper before going to air\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it&#8217;s easy to see why journalists seeking a quick scoop should take a moment to check the facts. When a recent radio news report in Johannesburg said the Dalai Lama was reportedly seen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}