{"id":182816,"date":"2015-06-01T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/quote-of-the-day-149\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:52:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/quote-of-the-day-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I&#8217;ve seen lemmings with shallower learning curves. Because of the last war for which Fred Hiatt shook his moneymaker, the influence that the United States can bring to bear on centuries-old internal conflicts in Iraq is slightly less than that wielded at the moment by the Carolina League. Our aid makes us one friend and makes for that friend a hundred enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a35347\/fred-hiatt\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a> on <i>WaPo<\/i> editorial page editor Fred Hiatt&#8217;s repeated calls for boots on the ground.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does Fred Hiatt still have a job?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t buy into the <i>Post<\/i>&#8216;s self image of greatness, but they deserve better than to have the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> worst<sup>*<\/sup> opinion page in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It is self evident that the worst OP\/ED page in the nation belongs to <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen lemmings with shallower learning curves. Because of the last war for which Fred Hiatt shook his moneymaker, the influence that the United States can bring to bear on centuries-old internal conflicts in Iraq is slightly less than that wielded at the moment by the Carolina League. Our aid makes us one friend and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182816"}],"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=182816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}