{"id":2942,"date":"2016-01-14T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:39:44","slug":"quotes-for-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If Mr. Trump wins the nomination, the G.O.P. will become the party of anti-reason.<\/p>\n<p>I will go further: Mr. Trump is precisely the kind of man our system of government was designed to avoid, the type of leader our founders feared &#8212; a demagogic figure who does not view himself as part of our constitutional system but rather as an alternative to it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/14\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/why-i-will-never-vote-for-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Wehner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiveatheism.org\/hist\/menck05.htm\" target=\"_blank\">H.L. Mencken<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mr. Trump wins the nomination, the G.O.P. will become the party of anti-reason. I will go further: Mr. Trump is precisely the kind of man our system of government was designed to avoid, the type of leader our founders &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2942\">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\/2942"}],"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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}