{"id":7479,"date":"2011-09-12T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2011-09-12T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:37:58","slug":"quote-of-the-day-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-358\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And so this political deadlock conceals a religious war at its heart.  Why after all should one abandon or compromise sacred truths? And for  those whose Christianity can only be sustained by denial of modern  complexity, of scientific knowledge, and of what scholarly studies of  the Bible&#8217;s origins have revealed, this fusion of political and spiritual lives into one seamless sensibility and culture, is irresistible.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Andrew Sullivan<\/strong> on the evolution (devolution?) of political parties <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/09\/goodbye-to-all-that-the-lofgren-thesis.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">into religious cults<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And so this political deadlock conceals a religious war at its heart. Why after all should one abandon or compromise sacred truths? And for those whose Christianity can only be sustained by denial of modern complexity, of scientific knowledge, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-358\/\">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\/7479"}],"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=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}