{"id":2651,"date":"2015-11-17T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2015-11-17T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:47:29","slug":"quote-for-the-day-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Most functioning democratic parties in the modern world have mechanisms for marginalizing elements whose presence will ultimately prove destructive to both the political system and the party itself. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">What has happened to the Republican Party\u2019s immune system?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/16\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Stewart<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that the base is no longer comprised of rational actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most functioning democratic parties in the modern world have mechanisms for marginalizing elements whose presence will ultimately prove destructive to both the political system and the party itself. What has happened to the Republican Party\u2019s immune system? Katherine Stewart The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2651\">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\/2651"}],"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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}