{"id":5384,"date":"2021-10-23T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:10:09","slug":"red-herring-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/red-herring-e\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRed Herring\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00ab\u00a0RED HERRING\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Herrings turn red when smoked; red herrings were used by fugitives to lead dogs on a false trail.<\/p>\n<p>The expression is used figuratively in argumentation, where the so-called \u201cred herring\u201d strategy is referred to as a <em>diversionary strategy<\/em>, where a <em>distraction<\/em> is used to avoid the issue, and divert the discussion to an irrelevant issue, <span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">see <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/5396-2\/\">relevance<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0RED HERRING\u00a0\u00bb Herrings turn red when smoked; red herrings were used by fugitives to lead dogs on a false trail. The expression is used figuratively in argumentation, where the so-called \u201cred herring\u201d strategy is referred to as a diversionary strategy, where a distraction is used to avoid the issue, and divert the discussion to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14258,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}