{"id":10730,"date":"2019-08-07T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2019-08-07T07:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:22:02","slug":"quote-for-the-day-191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10730","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The whims of one man now determine much of what happens in what we think of as a republic, where power should, in principle, be widely disseminated. And you don\u2019t just see this in what has objectively happened. You can feel the difference in the culture. Every morning, Washington wakes up and needs to ask only one question to figure out what\u2019s going on, as they did in the royal courts of old: What is the president\u2019s mood today? If that isn\u2019t a sign of a fast-eroding republic, what is?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/08\/is-there-hope-for-the-american-republic-after-trump.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintelligencer+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do your duty, Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whims of one man now determine much of what happens in what we think of as a republic, where power should, in principle, be widely disseminated. And you don\u2019t just see this in what has objectively happened. You can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10730\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10731,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions\/10731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}