{"id":194248,"date":"2008-10-13T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/13\/quote-of-the-day-gail-collins\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:07:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-gail-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/13\/quote-of-the-day-gail-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Gail Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/11\/opinion\/11collins.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\">Times Columnist Gail Collins<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It\u2019s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign\u2019s golden era. Now, he\u2019s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.<\/p>\n<p>During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: \u201c<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She owes me a screen cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Columnist Gail Collins Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It\u2019s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign\u2019s golden era. Now, he\u2019s beginning to act like one of those movie characters &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1228,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194248"}],"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=194248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}