{"id":20361,"date":"2017-10-17T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2017-10-17T06:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:53:16","slug":"quote-of-the-day-860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-860\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mccain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mccain.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mccain-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain &#8216;the last best hope of earth&#8217; for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.\u201d &#8212; <em>Sen. <strong>John McCain<\/strong> (R), <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/355759-mccain-blasts-half-baked-spurious-nationalism-in-emotional-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">upon receiving<\/a> the <strong>Liberty Medal<\/strong> of the <strong>National Constitution Center<\/strong>. Previous honorees include the <strong>Dalai Lama<\/strong>, Rep. <strong>John Lewis<\/strong> (D) and\u00a0<strong>Malala Yousafzai<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain &#8216;the last best hope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-860\/\">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":[28,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361"}],"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=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20362,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions\/20362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}