{"id":19007,"date":"2016-10-14T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=19007"},"modified":"2016-10-14T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:11:09","slug":"quote-of-the-day-776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-776\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have anything that\u2019s been as successful as this, at least that political science literature has been able to capture.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Fernando Guerra<\/strong>, of <strong>Loyola Marymount University<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Center for the Study Of Los Angeles<\/strong> on &#8216;<strong>Voteria<\/strong>,&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/11\/opinion\/for-better-citizenship-scratch-and-win.html?_r=1&amp;WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&amp;WT.mc_ev=click&amp;ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">which offered cash prizes to random voters<\/a> in an effort to increase civic participation. The<\/em> Los Angeles Times <em>blasted Voteria as a &#8220;gimmick [that] perverts the motivation to vote.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have anything that\u2019s been as successful as this, at least that political science literature has been able to capture.\u201d &#8212; Fernando Guerra, of Loyola Marymount University&#8216;s\u00a0Center for the Study Of Los Angeles on &#8216;Voteria,&#8217; which offered cash prizes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-776\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19008,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions\/19008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}