{"id":182681,"date":"2015-07-02T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/02\/quote-of-the-day-148\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T23:33:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/02\/quote-of-the-day-148\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FWwHqvTEFaM?rel=0\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/07\/02\/george_takei_on_clarence_thomas_he_is_a_clown_in_blackface\/\">George Takei<\/a> on Clarence Thomas<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree that Thomas&#8217;s comments in his Obergefell v. Hodge (gay marriage) dissent, where he says that slavery did nothing to remove the human dignity of its victims, I would not have used those words.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I didn&#8217;t, I called Thomas a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/clarence-thomas-is-miserable-excuse-for.html\">Miserable Excuse for a Human Being<\/a>,&#8221; and I <b>do<\/b> stand by <b>those<\/b> words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court \u2014George Takei on Clarence Thomas I agree that Thomas&#8217;s comments in his Obergefell v. Hodge (gay marriage) dissent, where he says that slavery did nothing to remove the human dignity of its victims, I would not have used those words. In fact, I didn&#8217;t, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,1002,972,1030,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-justice","category-lgbtq","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182681"}],"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=182681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}