{"id":122765,"date":"2019-12-10T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/10\/how-a-photo-of-a-boy-sleeping-on-a-hospital-floor-became-the-centre-of-two-fake-news-election-stories\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:14:08","slug":"how-a-photo-of-a-boy-sleeping-on-a-hospital-floor-became-the-centre-of-two-fake-news-election-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122765","title":{"rendered":"How a photo of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor became the centre of two fake news election stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case of Jack Williment-Barr, the four-year-old boy who was forced to sleep on a hospital floor as he waited in A&amp;E, has brought attention on the state of the NHS just days before the election. But it has also put focus on perhaps the other major trend of the election: false and misleading claims that have circulated on social media and been amplified by large parts of the traditional press.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/general-election-fake-news-nhs-hospital-sleeping-floor-boris-johnson-a9240926.html\" target=\"_blank\">How a photo of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor became the centre of two fake news election stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of Jack Williment-Barr, the four-year-old boy who was forced to sleep on a hospital floor as he waited in A&amp;E, has brought attention on the state of the NHS just days before the election. But it has also put focus on perhaps the other major trend of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}