{"id":2850,"date":"2015-12-20T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2015-12-20T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:48:31","slug":"quotes-for-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.<\/p>\n<p align=right>Sinclair Lewis (attr.)<\/p>\n<p>When extremists are white and typically wrapping themselves in religion and the American flag, far too many Americans simply turn a blind eye and give the hate merchants and demagogues a pass.  I agree with Parker that truly patriotic Americans have an obligation to loudly condemn our own extremists.  Sadly, the concept is lost on most Republicans and the self-congratulatory &#8220;godly folk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=right><a href=\"http:\/\/michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/americans-must-condemn-our-own.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hamar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine my own thoughts on all of this are too well-known to need reprising, so I won&#8217;t elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis (attr.) When extremists are white and typically wrapping themselves in religion and the American flag, far too many Americans simply turn a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2850\">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\/2850"}],"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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}