{"id":177668,"date":"2019-07-18T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/18\/tweets-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:03:00","slug":"tweets-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/18\/tweets-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet(s) of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">12. We laugh about all the right-wing welfare publications, but the whole Democratic party is welfare for Ivy-League mediocrities.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakebackpack\/status\/797820514513408004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a unique point, not even on Twitter, but it the most evocative expression of this sentiment that I have found:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Democratic Party is less a political party in pursuit of particular policy goals than a professional association organized to defend and advance the careers of its most valued members.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OsitaNwanevu\/status\/1149915544327471104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12. We laugh about all the right-wing welfare publications, but the whole Democratic party is welfare for Ivy-League mediocrities. \u2014 Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) November 13, 2016 It&#8217;s not a unique point, not even on Twitter, but it the most evocative expression of this sentiment that I have found: The Democratic Party is less a political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,367,504,374],"class_list":["post-177668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-internet","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}