{"id":193573,"date":"2008-12-05T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/05\/quote-of-the-day-274\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:52:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/05\/quote-of-the-day-274\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ever entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/12\/05\/politics\/politico\/thecrypt\/main4649898.shtml\">Barney Frank<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cI\u2019m a great fan of the president-elect, but I think it\u2019s probably the case that he\u2019s going to have to be more assertive than he\u2019s been,\u201d Frank said, addressing the Consumer Federation of America\u2019s annual financial services conference. \u201cAnd I know what he says is \u2018Well, we only have one president at a time. My problem is, at a time of great crisis and [massive] mortgage foreclosures. &#8230; I am afraid that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">overstates the number of presidents<\/span>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>I need to clean my screen now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever entertaining Barney Frank: \u201cI\u2019m a great fan of the president-elect, but I think it\u2019s probably the case that he\u2019s going to have to be more assertive than he\u2019s been,\u201d Frank said, addressing the Consumer Federation of America\u2019s annual financial services conference. \u201cAnd I know what he says is \u2018Well, we only have one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,998,1004,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-congress","category-finance","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193573"}],"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=193573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}