{"id":1883,"date":"2011-09-30T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/09\/quote_of_the_day\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:42:58","slug":"quote_of_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/09\/quote_of_the_day.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Beckett says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wherever nauseated time has dropped a nice fat turd you will find our patriots, sniffing it up on all fours, their faces on fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glenn Greenwald says it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/09\/30\/awlaki\/index.html\">like so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s most amazing is that its citizens will not merely refrain from objecting, but will stand and cheer the U.S. Government&#8217;s new power to assassinate their fellow citizens<\/a> &#8212; [in this instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/129910\/another-american-killed-in-strike-on-anwar-al-awlaki.html\">Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Kahn<\/a>] &#8212; far from any battlefield, literally without a shred of due process from the U.S. Government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Oct. 1 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historiansagainstwar.org\/wartime\/2011.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"From Joshua Brown's weekly blog, 'Life During Wartime.'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/JoshBrownFIFTHAMENDMENT-thumb-480x384-20610.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"384\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Beckett says: Wherever nauseated time has dropped a nice fat turd you will find our patriots, sniffing it up on all fours, their faces on fire. Glenn Greenwald says it like so: What&#8217;s most amazing is that its citizens will not merely refrain from objecting, but will stand and cheer the U.S. Government&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-un","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}