{"id":22782,"date":"2018-11-06T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=22782"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:03:26","slug":"quote-of-the-day-976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-976\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The <em>Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac<\/em> says handshakes date to medieval times, when people met on a path and extended a hand to show that they weren&#8217;t going to draw a sword. Others say handshakes originated in 5 BC in <strong>Greece<\/strong>, and that <strong>Medieval Europe<\/strong> added the element of a vigorous, moving clasp designed to shake loose hidden weapons. Today the handshake is used primarily to spread germs.&#8221; &#8212; Boston Globe <em>columnist <strong>Teresa Hannafin<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac says handshakes date to medieval times, when people met on a path and extended a hand to show that they weren&#8217;t going to draw a sword. Others say handshakes originated in 5 BC in Greece, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-976\/\">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":[140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782"}],"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=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22783,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions\/22783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}