{"id":181662,"date":"2016-04-20T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/20\/quote-of-the-day-116\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:37:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/20\/quote-of-the-day-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But first, what would motivate any young person today to pull the plug?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Well maybe they should consider this for a moment. Who most wants you  to stay on the grid? The advertisers. Your boss. Human Resources. The  advertisers. Your parents (irony of ironies \u2013 once they distrusted it,  now they need to tag you electronically, share your Facebook photos and  message you to death). The advertisers. The government. Your local  authority. Your school. <i>Advertisers<\/i>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Well, if you\u2019re young and have an ounce of pride, doesn\u2019t that list say it all? So f%$# you, I\u2019m Going Off The Grid.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/2016\/04\/off-the-grid\/\">Stephen Fry<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$%# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But first, what would motivate any young person today to pull the plug?Well maybe they should consider this for a moment. Who most wants you to stay on the grid? The advertisers. Your boss. Human Resources. The advertisers. Your parents (irony of ironies \u2013 once they distrusted it, now they need to tag you electronically, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,997,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-internet","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662"}],"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=181662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}