{"id":8889,"date":"2012-04-26T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2012-04-26T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:59:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-415\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Opinion has become the new truth. And many people who already have  opinions see in the &#8216;news&#8217; an affirmation of the opinion they already  had, and that confirms their opinion as fact.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>New York University<\/strong> English professor <strong>Mary Poovey<\/strong>, in <strong>Rex Huppke<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/em> Chicago Tribune <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-talk-huppke-obit-facts-20120419,0,809470.story\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">obituary for empirical knowledge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Opinion has become the new truth. And many people who already have opinions see in the &#8216;news&#8217; an affirmation of the opinion they already had, and that confirms their opinion as fact.&#8221; &#8212; New York University English professor Mary Poovey, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-415\/\">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\/8889"}],"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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}