{"id":3868,"date":"2010-06-25T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:22:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3869\" title=\"Santa Barbara spill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Santa-Barbara-spill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Santa-Barbara-spill.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Santa-Barbara-spill-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Santa-Barbara-spill-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/>&#8220;This is the first time anything vaguely like this has ever happened.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Mississippi Gov. <strong>Haley Barbour<\/strong>, pooh-pooh-ing <strong>Deepwater Horizon<\/strong> in the June 19 <\/em>New York Times <em>and displaying the benefits of a short-term memory. Barbour, who&#8217;s normally a sharp customer, has clearly forgotten the catastrophic <strong>Santa Barbara Channel<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\">oil spill of 1969<\/a>. Compared to Deepwater Horizon, the Santa Barbara blowout &#8216;merely&#8217; lasted 10 days and spilt 80,000 barrels worth of crude or so. However, it left such a stain on the national psyche that it kiboshed offshore oil drilling for more than two decades<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the first time anything vaguely like this has ever happened.&#8221; &#8212; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, pooh-pooh-ing Deepwater Horizon in the June 19 New York Times and displaying the benefits of a short-term memory. Barbour, who&#8217;s normally a sharp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-176\/\">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":[28,117,35,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868"}],"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=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}