{"id":6627,"date":"2015-11-25T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2015-11-25T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:24:08","slug":"man-says-he-invented-phuc-dat-bich-hoax-to-fool-news-media-and-facebook-media-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/man-says-he-invented-phuc-dat-bich-hoax-to-fool-news-media-and-facebook-media-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Man says he invented &#039;Phuc Dat Bich&#039; hoax to fool news media and Facebook &#124; Media &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat started as a joke between friends, became a prank that made a fool out of the media and brought out the best in the people who reached out to me. It didn\u2019t bring out the anger and darkness that we often see on the internet, but it brought a levity and humanity in a time we need it most.\u201cOut of this ordeal I\u2019ve concluded not to trust the credibility of the media, it\u2019s twisted by the hungry journalists who mask the truth &#8230; It goes to show that an average joe like myself can con the the biggest news sources with ease.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/nov\/25\/man-says-he-made-up-vietnamese-name-hoax-to-fool-news-media-and-facebook\">Man says he invented &#8216;Phuc Dat Bich&#8217; hoax to fool news media and Facebook | Media | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat started as a joke between friends, became a prank that made a fool out of the media and brought out the best in the people who reached out to me. It didn\u2019t bring out the anger and darkness that we often see on the internet, but it brought a levity and humanity in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/man-says-he-invented-phuc-dat-bich-hoax-to-fool-news-media-and-facebook-media-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man says he invented &#039;Phuc Dat Bich&#039; hoax to fool news media and Facebook &#124; Media &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}