{"id":8988,"date":"2012-05-11T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:56:48","slug":"quote-of-the-day-419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-419\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But there is surely something here: the notion that being privileged and  conformist requires actual punishment of the marginalized and  under-privileged; that you pick on younger, weaker boys, not older ones;  and that you psychologically traumatize the victim by permanently  marking his body.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Andrew Sullivan<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/05\/pranks.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on a societally condoned activity<\/a> that&#8217;s back in the news. My two cents on bullying: As formative experiences go, I don&#8217;t recommend it, especially if you&#8217;re the nonconformist being targeted<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But there is surely something here: the notion that being privileged and conformist requires actual punishment of the marginalized and under-privileged; that you pick on younger, weaker boys, not older ones; and that you psychologically traumatize the victim by permanently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-419\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988"}],"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=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}