{"id":180632,"date":"2017-02-23T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/23\/quote-of-the-day-76\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:03:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/23\/quote-of-the-day-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Let me just say at the outset that I will read any story anywhere that contains the phrase, &#8220;once stabbed a guy in the head with a broken margarita glass.&#8221; (It&#8217;s like Raymond Chandler rewritten by Carl Hiassen.)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a53314\/trump-russia-felix-sater\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a> on the rather colorful history of white supremacist, bar brawler, mobbed up stock scammer, CIA informant,&nbsp; and Trump staffer Felix Sater.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to disagree with Charlie Pierce on this:&nbsp; Carl Hiassen would not write this, it&#8217;s simply too fantastic and unbelievable, even for Hiassen.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, this is too weird for Kafka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just say at the outset that I will read any story anywhere that contains the phrase, &#8220;once stabbed a guy in the head with a broken margarita glass.&#8221; (It&#8217;s like Raymond Chandler rewritten by Carl Hiassen.) \u2014Charlie Pierce on the rather colorful history of white supremacist, bar brawler, mobbed up stock scammer, CIA &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":[368,456,481,421,454],"class_list":["post-180632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-finance","tag-intelligence","tag-weird","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180632"}],"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=180632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}