{"id":8875,"date":"2012-04-25T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2022-04-01T06:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T14:52:47","slug":"quote-of-the-day-414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-414\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5038\" title=\"harryreid_t178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/harryreid_t178-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/harryreid_t178-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/harryreid_t178.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/>&#8220;<em>Madam President, I&#8217;ll come home tonight &#8230; and there&#8217;ll be some mail there. A lot of it is what some people refer to as junk mail, but for the people who are sending that mail, it&#8217;s very important. And when talking about seniors, seniors love getting junk mail. It&#8217;s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they&#8217;re part of the real world<\/em>.&#8221; &#8212; Sen. <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV), singing the praises of the bulk-rate crap that clogs our mailboxes &#8230; and ultimately our recycling bins. What a lovely thought: In 15 years, the highlight of my day will be to receive a <strong>Vons<\/strong> circular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Madam President, I&#8217;ll come home tonight &#8230; and there&#8217;ll be some mail there. A lot of it is what some people refer to as junk mail, but for the people who are sending that mail, it&#8217;s very important. And when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-414\/\">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":[52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875"}],"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=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30955,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/30955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}