{"id":191959,"date":"2009-05-31T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/31\/quote-of-the-day-267\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T02:40:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/31\/quote-of-the-day-267\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/bailouts-focus-on-economics-not-politics\/\">Barry Ritholtz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I can only conclude that in order to run for governor in Texas, there is some sort of an IQ test involved \u2014 if you pass it, you become ineligible for state office . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry, who had said that he would decline stimulus funds, and had  actually talked secession, was in fact spending stimulus funds on remodeling the governor&#8217;s mansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz: I can only conclude that in order to run for governor in Texas, there is some sort of an IQ test involved \u2014 if you pass it, you become ineligible for state office . . . On the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry, who had said that he would decline stimulus funds, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,1002,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191959"}],"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=191959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}