{"id":9469,"date":"2012-08-16T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:40:19","slug":"quote-of-the-day-443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-443\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9470\" title=\"Mark_Twain,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_Feb_7,_1871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/>&#8220;No man&#8217;s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.&#8221; &#8212; <strong><em>Mark Twain<\/em><\/strong><em>, greatest newspaperman in <\/em><strong><em>Nevada<\/em><\/strong><em> history, bar none. But he needn&#8217;t fear the <strong>112th Congress<\/strong>, which has massively underachieved the notorious (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-big-talk-no-action-congress\/2012\/05\/02\/gIQAtOu7uT_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>and perhaps unfairly maligned<\/em><\/a><em>) <strong>80th Congress<\/strong>, the one <strong>Harry Truman<\/strong> famously dubbed &#8220;the Do-Nothing Congress.&#8221; Oh, but the 112th <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span> manage to pass <strong>The Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act<\/strong>, as well as authorize an official prayer<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No man&#8217;s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.&#8221; &#8212; Mark Twain, greatest newspaperman in Nevada history, bar none. But he needn&#8217;t fear the 112th Congress, which has massively underachieved the notorious (and perhaps unfairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-443\/\">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\/9469"}],"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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}