{"id":9553,"date":"2012-08-27T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2012-08-27T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:50:27","slug":"quote-of-the-day-446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-446\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To me, the <strong>American Dream<\/strong> <strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9554\" title=\"NeilArmstrong_851501_620x350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NeilArmstrong_851501_620x350-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NeilArmstrong_851501_620x350-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NeilArmstrong_851501_620x350-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NeilArmstrong_851501_620x350.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong>today seems like nothing more than sitting back and being entertained.\u201d &#8212; <strong><em>Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Armstrong\" target=\"_blank\"><em>war hero, test pilot, astronaut<\/em><\/a><em> and first man to set foot on the <\/em><strong><em>Moon<\/em><\/strong><em>, quoted in 2007. No less a chronicler of events than <\/em><strong><em>Norman Mailer<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/26\/opinion\/seymour-armstrong-appreciation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>described the serene Armstrong<\/em><\/a><em> as &#8220;apparently in communion with some string in the universe others did not think to unravel.&#8221; For those of us <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/tv\/article\/Neil-Armstrong-a-true-American-hero-3818348.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>who saw the Moon landing as it happened<\/em><\/a><em>, a not-so-small part of ourselves died last weekend<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To me, the American Dream today seems like nothing more than sitting back and being entertained.\u201d &#8212; Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), war hero, test pilot, astronaut and first man to set foot on the Moon, quoted in 2007. No less a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-446\/\">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":[28,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553"}],"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=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9556,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}