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The hoax morality campaign that fooled the US media for years.<\/p>A Nude Horse Is A Rude Horse: Alan Abel\u2019s Society For Indecency To Naked Animals<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hoax morality campaign that fooled the US media for years. A Nude Horse Is A Rude Horse: Alan Abel\u2019s Society For Indecency To Naked Animals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-AK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":702,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/the-taoist-farmer\/","url_meta":{"origin":2278,"position":0},"title":"The Taoist Farmer","author":"David Raffin","date":"May 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A man who lived on the northern frontier of China was skilled in interpreting events. 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