{"id":9082,"date":"2012-05-22T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:13:50","slug":"quote-of-the-day-423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-423\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tradition is the illegitimate son of grief. Tradition is a way to honor  the unknowable generations that came before, to show them the false  respect of unquestioning alliegance [<em>sic<\/em>]. Slavery was a tradition. Patriarchy  was a tradition. There are lots of traditions that decrepit old orders  imposed when their ideas lost the shine of truth. Tradition is the stuff  of rot, the stuff of a culture living in the past. Tradition is the  mummy of the old regime.&#8221; &#8212; New York Times <em>reader <strong>April Fitzcarraldo<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/22\/arts\/music\/opera-news-will-stop-reviewing-metropolitan-opera.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on the subject of censorship<\/a> in &#8220;a nation of heretics and revolutionaries&#8221; (i.e., ours)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tradition is the illegitimate son of grief. Tradition is a way to honor the unknowable generations that came before, to show them the false respect of unquestioning alliegance [sic]. Slavery was a tradition. Patriarchy was a tradition. There are lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-423\/\">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":[140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082"}],"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=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}