{"id":11735,"date":"2020-02-08T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11735"},"modified":"2020-02-08T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:17:02","slug":"quote-for-the-day-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11735","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>They wrap themselves in the flag, professing love of country, saying Democrats hate America.  But it&#8217;s Trumpers themselves who seem to hate (or maybe never understood) the principles, values, and ideals America stands for.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rationaloptimist.wordpress.com\/2020\/02\/08\/pelosi-rips-up-trumps-speech\/' target=\"_blank\">Frank S. Robinson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most, I am convinced, are simply incapable of the ideations that undergird Enlightenment ideals, and a great many others are guided by some incoherent pastiche of notions about a cosmic monarchy headed by an Invisible Friend. It all puts me in mind of Bertrand Russell&#8217;s famous remark: &#8220;Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They wrap themselves in the flag, professing love of country, saying Democrats hate America. But it&#8217;s Trumpers themselves who seem to hate (or maybe never understood) the principles, values, and ideals America stands for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735"}],"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=11735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}