{"id":8607,"date":"2012-03-09T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2012-03-09T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:16:05","slug":"quote-of-the-day-406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-406\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8608\" title=\"dostoevsky_02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dostoevsky_02-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dostoevsky_02-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dostoevsky_02.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>&#8220;Research suggests that the more [<strong>Mitt<\/strong>] <strong>Romney<\/strong> tries to <em>not<\/em> talk about  his wealth, the more likely he is to do just that. The human mind is  perversely drawn to fixate upon the subjects we most want to avoid,  especially when under stress.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Liz Goodwin<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ticket\/why-mitt-romney-t-shut-money-165017157.html\" target=\"_blank\">on the &#8220;ironic process,&#8221;<\/a> also known as &#8220;<strong>Steve Blass<\/strong> Disease&#8221; (or &#8220;<strong>Steve Sax<\/strong> Disease,&#8221; for that matter) and how it all relates to Dostoyevsky&#8217;s <strong>Prince Myshkin<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Incidentally, congratulations to <strong>Logan Place<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Gabrielli<\/strong>, winner and runner-up in the &#8220;<strong>theD<\/strong>&#8221; guessing game. Some <strong>Huntington Press<\/strong> swag shall be their reward.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Research suggests that the more [Mitt] Romney tries to not talk about his wealth, the more likely he is to do just that. The human mind is perversely drawn to fixate upon the subjects we most want to avoid, especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-406\/\">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":[113,83,51,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607"}],"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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8610,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}