{"id":5090,"date":"2010-11-08T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2010-11-08T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:39:13","slug":"quote-of-the-day-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-248\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the face of all those challenges, like our Gilded Age forebears, we  have a political system that manages to be both volatile and gridlocked \u2014  indeed, it may be gridlocked not least because it is so volatile. And,  like their 19th-century forebears, today\u2019s politicians have great  difficulty gaining traction on any of those challenges. Now as then,  it\u2019s hard to lead citizens who are so eager to &#8216;throw the bums out&#8217; at  every opportunity.&#8221; &#8212; <em>historian <strong>David M. Kennedy<\/strong> on the parallels between the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/07\/opinion\/07kennedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">in 1870-1900 and now<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the face of all those challenges, like our Gilded Age forebears, we have a political system that manages to be both volatile and gridlocked \u2014 indeed, it may be gridlocked not least because it is so volatile. And, like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-248\/\">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":[14,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090"}],"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=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}