{"id":2975,"date":"2012-03-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2012-03-15T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:38:08","slug":"rules-for-conning-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/rules-for-conning-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules for Conning Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0934_RulesforCon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victor Lustig, a conman from the early 90s who once managed to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal left behind a list of commandments for aspiring con-men. Some of them include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a patient listener<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the other person to reveal political or religious beliefs \u2013 then change yours to match theirs.<\/li>\n<li>Never boast, instead let your importance be quietly obvious.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get drunk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aspiring to be a con artist? Then you might want to check out the full list and find out about the role that sex-talk has to play.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listsofnote.com\/2012\/02\/10-commandments-for-con-men.html\">Lists of note<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/02\/ten-commandments-for-con-men\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Lustig, a conman from the early 90s who once managed to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal left behind a list of commandments for aspiring con-men. Some of them include: Be a patient listener Wait for the other person to reveal political or religious beliefs \u2013 then change yours to match theirs. Never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0934_RulesforCon1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}