{"id":2869,"date":"2010-04-09T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:54:58","slug":"quote-of-the-day-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-156\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2870\" title=\"Chic-Hecht-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chic-Hecht-photo-150x131.jpg\" alt=\"Chic-Hecht-photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chic-Hecht-photo-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chic-Hecht-photo-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chic-Hecht-photo.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;The late <strong>Chic Hecht<\/strong>, a lovely man who also said [<strong>Martin Luther King<\/strong>] had &#8216;not been dead long enough&#8217; to merit holiday, makes <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong> look like <strong>Cicero<\/strong>.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Jon Ralston<\/strong>, from his <strong>Twitter<\/strong> feed, on <strong>Nevada<\/strong>&#8216;s famously malaprop-prone senator, who is best remembered for having referred to <strong>Yucca Mountain<\/strong> as a &#8220;suppository&#8221; for nuclear waste &#8230; which was not without an element of poetic truth<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The late Chic Hecht, a lovely man who also said [Martin Luther King] had &#8216;not been dead long enough&#8217; to merit holiday, makes Harry Reid look like Cicero.&#8221; &#8212; Jon Ralston, from his Twitter feed, on Nevada&#8216;s famously malaprop-prone senator, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-156\/\">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":[26,4,52,33,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"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=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}