{"id":194188,"date":"2008-10-17T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/quote-of-the-day-he-said-that-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:52:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-he-said-that-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/quote-of-the-day-he-said-that-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: He Said THAT? Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2008\/10\/senator_government_v_joe_the_p.html\">Joe Kline<\/a>, which I guess proves the old adage about even stopped clocks being right twice a day:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Ronald Reagan used to say that the most frightening nine words in the English language were &#8216;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217; That is no longer true. This year, the most frightening eight words are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;I&#8217;m John McCain and I approved this message<\/span>.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>That should go a long way towards alleviating the snark shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Joe Kline, which I guess proves the old adage about even stopped clocks being right twice a day: Ronald Reagan used to say that the most frightening nine words in the English language were &#8216;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217; That is no longer true. This year, the most frightening eight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194188"}],"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=194188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}