{"id":25948,"date":"2017-05-09T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25948"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:15:46","slug":"the-most-amazing-lie-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25948","title":{"rendered":"The Most Amazing Lie in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They were worried for good reason. With so many troops and so much artillery swelling in England, it was impossible to keep the attack a secret. Hitler knew it was coming, and he\u2019d been preparing a defense for months. Only one detail eluded him, and he was confident in a Nazi victory if he could figure it out\u2014he needed to know where, exactly, the attack would happen. To make D-day a success, the Allies needed to keep him in the dark: They\u2019d have to trick the Germans into thinking the real invasion was just a bluff, while making it seem like a major attack was imminent elsewhere. The task seemed impossible, but luckily, the British had a secret weapon: a short, young balding Spaniard. He was the king of con men, an amateur spy gone pro, the world\u2019s sneakiest liar. He was also, of all things, a chicken farmer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/58468\/most-amazing-lie-history\">Mental Floss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were worried for good reason. With so many troops and so much artillery swelling in England, it was impossible to keep the attack a secret. Hitler knew it was coming, and he\u2019d been preparing a defense for months. Only one detail eluded him, and he was confident in a Nazi victory if he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25950,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948\/revisions\/25950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}