{"id":4804,"date":"2010-10-11T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2010-10-11T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:58:25","slug":"quote-of-the-day-223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-223\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4805\" title=\"bridge_591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge_591-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge_591-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge_591-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge_591.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;We are no longer the  nation that used to amaze the world with its visionary projects. We have  become, instead, a nation whose politicians seem to compete over who  can show the least vision, the least concern about the future and the  greatest willingness to pander to short-term, narrow-minded selfishness.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Nobel laureate Paul <strong>Krugman<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_16289952?source=most_emailed&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">the general reluctance to invest in American infrastructure<\/a>, epitomized by <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> Gov. <strong>Chris Christie<\/strong>&#8216;s attempt to abort a commuter-rail tunnel from the Garden State to <strong>Manhattan<\/strong>. Christie <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.wnyc.org\/articles\/wnyc-news\/2010\/oct\/08\/chrstie-take-another-look-arc\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">has subsequently waffled<\/a> on the matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are no longer the nation that used to amaze the world with its visionary projects. We have become, instead, a nation whose politicians seem to compete over who can show the least vision, the least concern about the future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-223\/\">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":[28,14,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804"}],"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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}