{"id":26799,"date":"2020-04-19T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=26799"},"modified":"2020-04-19T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T16:34:32","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1242\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blaming this dire circumstance on one person, one set of leaders, or one political party is tempting but too simple. Our response to today\u2019s health <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Flag.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Flag-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>crisis reveals a deep illness that has been festering within American society and our body politic. We have sacrificed our sense of common destiny to a hyper-individualism that rejects the concept of solidarity among human beings. Governments are supposed to assure that everyone enjoys at least a basic level of security. Ours has all but abandoned that responsibility.&#8221;\u2014<em><strong>Stephen Kinzer<\/strong>, senior fellow at the <strong>Watson Institute for International &amp;\u00a0Public Affairs<\/strong> at <strong>Brown University<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/04\/16\/opinion\/our-response-coronavirus-demonstrates-how-far-america-has-careened-off-track\/?et_rid=753721489&amp;s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the self-revelations<\/a> of the <strong>Coronavirus<\/strong> crisis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blaming this dire circumstance on one person, one set of leaders, or one political party is tempting but too simple. Our response to today\u2019s health crisis reveals a deep illness that has been festering within American society and our body &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1242\/\">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":[28,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799"}],"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=26799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26800,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions\/26800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}