{"id":24762,"date":"2019-08-26T05:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=24762"},"modified":"2019-08-26T05:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:37:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1096\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Slave labor was no match for canals, railroads, steel mills and shipyards. Slavery \u2014 and the parochial rent-seeking culture it promoted \u2014 inhibited the growth of capitalism in the South.&#8221;\u2014<em><strong>Karl W. Smith<\/strong> on the 400th anniversary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-08-25\/how-slavery-hurt-the-u-s-economy?cmpid=BBD082619_OUS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=190826&amp;utm_campaign=openamericas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">of slavery<\/a> in the <strong>United States<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Slave labor was no match for canals, railroads, steel mills and shipyards. Slavery \u2014 and the parochial rent-seeking culture it promoted \u2014 inhibited the growth of capitalism in the South.&#8221;\u2014Karl W. Smith on the 400th anniversary of slavery in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1096\/\">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":[14,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762"}],"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=24762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24763,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762\/revisions\/24763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}