{"id":722,"date":"2016-02-06T22:12:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2016-02-06T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:12:51","slug":"emotional-appeal-this-dog-did-not-dig-a-hole-to-be-close-to-a-deceased-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/02\/06\/emotional-appeal-this-dog-did-not-dig-a-hole-to-be-close-to-a-deceased-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Appeal: This dog did not dig a hole to be close to a deceased owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-723 \" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture.gif\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"402\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><strong>TL;DR Summary<\/strong><br \/>\nMaking the rounds on FB again today:<br \/>\n<span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">&#8220;A dog dug a hole in the tomb of his owner, who has just died so he can be close to him. Nothing in the World can Compare with the Love and Loyalty of a Dog for his Friend.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nThe story is false.\u00a0 More <a href=\"http:\/\/aplus.com\/a\/dog-found-sleeping-under-a-grave\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/dog-curls-up-grave-puppies-1249615771.html\">here<\/a>. As of today, this has been shared over 8,600 times on FB alone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe image features a strong emotional connection and the fake story sounds plausible, creating a perfect match for a viral &#8211; but false &#8211; meme. This item is not really propaganda as there is no specific goal or action. I include it here to illustrate how propaganda uses appeals to emotion to engage our quick acting System 1 thinking. Once we&#8217;ve engaged System 1 and settle on a coherent, plausible story we then fall victim to the propagandists message to take some action.<br \/>\nOne way to defend yourself against this type of propaganda is to ask yourself, &#8220;Could some other explanation be possible?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Summary Making the rounds on FB again today: &#8220;A dog dug a hole in the tomb of his owner, who has just died so he can be close to him. Nothing in the World can Compare with the Love and Loyalty of a Dog for his Friend.&#8221; The story is false.\u00a0 More here and here. As of today, this has been shared over 8,600 times on FB alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,38,1],"tags":[74,121,132,176,243,313],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-propaganda-methods","category-uncategorized","tag-appeal-to-emotion","tag-deceased","tag-dog","tag-grave","tag-owner","tag-tomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}