{"id":183373,"date":"2014-12-13T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/13\/quote-of-the-day-173\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T02:20:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/13\/quote-of-the-day-173\/","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: 378px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:983e8519-5355-4d49-9525-068e114524d8\" width=\"368\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Good Point<\/i><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It&#8217;s funny, I just made this movie about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don&#8217;t think they did half that sh%$ to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 Jon Stewart<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jon Stewart is rightly appalled.<\/p>\n<p>He just did a movie about torture, and the elements of the state security apparatus in Iran were more humane, and less brutal, than those of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Our torture, and the support for it, both tacit and explicit, exhibited by both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, are going to bear bitter fruit for the us for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Point It&#8217;s funny, I just made this movie about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don&#8217;t think they did half that sh%$ to him. \u2014 Jon Stewart Jon Stewart is rightly appalled. He just did a movie about torture, and the elements of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1028,1168,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-torture","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183373"}],"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=183373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}