{"id":204897,"date":"2014-06-22T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/22\/msaliddell-i-realized-something-about-john\/"},"modified":"2014-06-22T20:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T20:17:15","slug":"msaliddell-i-realized-something-about-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/22\/msaliddell-i-realized-something-about-john\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/msaliddell.tumblr.com\/post\/88965793875\/i-realized-something-about-john-watson-today-john\" target=\"_blank\">msaliddell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I realized something about John Watson today. John doesn\u2019t like to lie. When he has to be misleading, he tends to talk around an outright falsehood and avoid actually saying what he wants the other party to believe. <br \/> Baskerville is one huge example of this. He never actually says that he and Sherlock are there in a legitimate, official capacity with the military. He only heavily implies it, and that\u2019s enough to get him what he wants. <br \/> We also see him hedge in this way surrounding his relationship with Sherlock. He doesn\u2019t ever say that he\u2019s straight and not interested in Sherlock. He says that he\u2019s not gay and that they are not a couple. Those truths spoken in this context are intended to be misleading and conceal his real feelings. <br \/> So bearing in mind this tendency to talk around the lie, John\u2019s speech to Mary at Christmas is very telling. He never says he forgives her. He never says he loves her. He implies those things because he wants her to believe them, but he never outright says them. And why not? Because he\u2019s a horrible liar. He can\u2019t say his lies aloud. So he talks around them, and lets other people draw the false conclusions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>msaliddell: I realized something about John Watson today. John doesn\u2019t like to lie. When he has to be misleading, he tends to talk around an outright falsehood and avoid actually saying what he wants the other party to believe. Baskerville is one huge example of this. He never actually says that he and Sherlock are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/22\/msaliddell-i-realized-something-about-john\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}