{"id":186868,"date":"2013-09-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/11\/quote-of-the-day-213\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:48:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/11\/quote-of-the-day-213\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe first thing I\u2019m going to tell my successor,\u201d Kennedy told guests at the White House, \u201cis to watch the generals, and to avoid feeling that just because they were military men, their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/08\/jfk-vs-the-military\/309496\/?google_editors_picks=true\">\u2014Robert Dallek<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article.<\/p>\n<p>The entire General staff was <b>insane<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted to drop nukes on everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first thing I\u2019m going to tell my successor,\u201d Kennedy told guests at the White House, \u201cis to watch the generals, and to avoid feeling that just because they were military men, their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.\u201d \u2014Robert Dallek Read the whole article. The entire General staff was insane. They wanted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1011,1006,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-history","category-military","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186868"}],"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=186868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}