{"id":180879,"date":"2016-12-04T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/04\/quote-of-the-day-86\/"},"modified":"2016-12-04T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T23:51:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/04\/quote-of-the-day-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is hard to think of an election defeat more singularly absent of important lessons, since the most important lesson of the election is glaringly obvious and shared by all sides: <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Don\u2019t nominate Hillary Clinton for president again.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/12\/the-2016-election-is-a-disaster-without-a-moral.html\">Jonathan Chait<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wise words from what might have been the most clueless<sup>*<\/sup> pundit of this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">There were certainly pundits writing stupider things, but I think that it was malice and self interest, not pure stupidity that drove them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to think of an election defeat more singularly absent of important lessons, since the most important lesson of the election is glaringly obvious and shared by all sides: Don\u2019t nominate Hillary Clinton for president again. \u2014Jonathan Chait Wise words from what might have been the most clueless* pundit of this election cycle. &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":[768,807,823,824],"class_list":["post-180879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180879"}],"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=180879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}