{"id":188411,"date":"2010-10-03T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/03\/quote-of-the-day-232\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:53:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/03\/quote-of-the-day-232\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it&#8217;s going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I&#8217;ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They&#8217;re full of sh%$.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211;Matt Taibbi in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/17390\/210904\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rolling Stone<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">$# mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>He had a conversation with a man who has worked as a tax assessor his whole life, and hence is being paid by our tax dollars, and whose wife is on Medicare, and has a scooter funded by the program, but <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> aren&#8217;t the problem, it&#8217;s the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">other<\/span><\/span> who is sucking the marrow out of our society.<\/p>\n<p>Just go read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it&#8217;s going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I&#8217;ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They&#8217;re full of sh%$. &#8211;Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone ($# mine) He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1002,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188411"}],"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=188411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}