{"id":192581,"date":"2009-03-17T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/17\/quote-of-the-day-272\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:23:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/17\/quote-of-the-day-272\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For once, I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/bondsNews\/idUSN1726626220090317\">Senator Jim Grassley<\/a> (R-IA):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them (is) if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I&#8217;m sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He later backed off his suicide comment, which was an exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis, but &#8220;Have you no shame,&#8221; has already been said about Joseph McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I thought that it was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For once, I agree with Senator Jim Grassley (R-IA): The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them (is) if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I&#8217;m sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192581"}],"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=192581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}