{"id":2074,"date":"2009-10-01T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:34:07","slug":"lying-by-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Lying by omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When estate agents <a title=\"Lying estate agents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geeringandcolyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geering and Colyer<\/a> listed an advertisement for &#8216;an exceptional fisherman&#8217;s cottage&#8217; in Kent, you really would have thought that the estate agency would also have mentioned at least one of the two nuclear power stations right next door.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2075\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2075\" title=\"Dungeness\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Dungeness.jpg\" alt=\"Dungeness\" width=\"280\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But no, although the good people at Geering and Colyer have chosen to wax lyrical about the proximity of the cottage to a nature reserve, they completely fail to mention the proximity of Dungeness nuclear reactor &#8216;A&#8217;, and Dungeness nuclear reactor &#8216;B&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Geering and Colyer have also chosen to not mention the forthcoming Dungeness nuclear reactor &#8216;C&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>But the thing is &#8211; and here&#8217;s my very simple question &#8211; if Geering and Colyer have chosen not to inform prospective purchasers about these two (and the soon to be arriving) nuclear power stations, what other, less noticeable, things might these estate agents be in the habit of forgetting to mention?<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a title=\"Newsarse\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Newsarse\/~3\/57_hJdwUjDE\/\" target=\"_blank\">an alternate way of looking at this story from NewsARSE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When estate agents Geering and Colyer listed an advertisement for &#8216;an exceptional fisherman&#8217;s cottage&#8217; in Kent, you really would have thought that the estate agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}