{"id":26646,"date":"2020-04-07T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=26646"},"modified":"2020-04-07T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:00:57","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1231\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Biographical history, as\u00a0taught in our public schools,\u00a0is still largely a history of\u00a0boneheads: ridiculous kings\u00a0and queens, paranoid political\u00a0leaders, compulsive voyagers,\u00a0ignorant generals, the flotsam\u00a0and jetsam of historical\u00a0currents. The men who\u00a0radically altered history, the\u00a0great creative scientists and\u00a0mathematicians, are seldom\u00a0mentioned if at all.\u201d\u2014<em><strong>Martin\u00a0Gardner<\/strong>, mathematician and\u00a0writer (1914-2010)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Biographical history, as\u00a0taught in our public schools,\u00a0is still largely a history of\u00a0boneheads: ridiculous kings\u00a0and queens, paranoid political\u00a0leaders, compulsive voyagers,\u00a0ignorant generals, the flotsam\u00a0and jetsam of historical\u00a0currents. The men who\u00a0radically altered history, the\u00a0great creative scientists and\u00a0mathematicians, are seldom\u00a0mentioned if at all.\u201d\u2014Martin\u00a0Gardner, mathematician &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1231\/\">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\/26646"}],"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=26646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26647,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions\/26647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}