{"id":4740,"date":"2010-10-06T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2010-10-06T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T16:33:29","slug":"quote-of-the-day-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-232\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4741\" title=\"constitution\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/constitution-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/constitution-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/constitution-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/constitution.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/>&#8220;The court has not reached this conclusion lightly. It  is acutely aware of the perilous nature of the world in which we live.  But the <a id=\"KonaLink2\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_guantanamo_detainee#\" target=\"undefined\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #366388;\">Constitution<\/span><\/a> is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not when it  is convenient, but when fear and danger beckon in a different  direction.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Judge <strong>Lewis A. Kaplan<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_guantanamo_detainee\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">excluding testimony extracted under torture<\/a> from the trial of a <strong>Guantanamo Bay<\/strong> detainee and accused terrorist<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The court has not reached this conclusion lightly. It is acutely aware of the perilous nature of the world in which we live. But the Constitution is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-232\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740"}],"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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}