{"id":179321,"date":"2018-03-22T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/22\/quote-of-the-day-37\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:33:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/22\/quote-of-the-day-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Saying that Russia has undermined American democracy is like me \u2013  middle-aged, five foot nine, and unblessed with jumping ability \u2013 saying that the Brooklyn Nets Russian-born center Timofy Mozgov undermined my potential career in the National Basketball Association.<\/span><\/b><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/21\/time-is-running-out-who-will-protect-our-wrecked-democracy-from-the-american-oligarchy\/\">Paul Street<\/a> on <i>Counterpunch<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If we are really worried about our democratic process being compromised, we need to look at the corporate media, the entrenched elites, the feckless punditry, and the political consultant class first.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve done a way better job at compromising democracy than Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, they may very well have done a better job at compromising democracy than Benito Mussolini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying that Russia has undermined American democracy is like me \u2013 middle-aged, five foot nine, and unblessed with jumping ability \u2013 saying that the Brooklyn Nets Russian-born center Timofy Mozgov undermined my potential career in the National Basketball Association. \u2014Paul Street on Counterpunch. If we are really worried about our democratic process being compromised, we &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":[588,464,385,374,455,595],"class_list":["post-179321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-good-writing","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179321"}],"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=179321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}