{"id":186790,"date":"2025-06-07T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=186790"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:26:17","slug":"todays-quote-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smalldeadanimals.com\/2025\/06\/07\/mischief-is-important-71\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate McMillan<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2005\/07\/the_normblog_pr_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">normblog twenty years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norm: If you could have any three guests, past or present, to dinner who would they be?<\/p>\n<p>Kate: From the present &#8211; the American writer and conservative &#8216;hawk&#8217; Mark Helprin, and rocker Ted Nugent. Helprin is on a lot of shortlists as &#8216;world&#8217;s greatest living writer&#8217;, but that&#8217;s not the only reason I&#8217;d invite him. I figure that given a few drinks, he could help me convince Nugent to beat the crap out of the third guest I&#8217;d invite &#8211; Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the socialist Canadian Prime Minister who set into motion the intellectual, military and political decay of a once proud nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate McMillan at normblog twenty years ago: Norm: If you could have any three guests, past or present, to dinner who would they be? Kate: From the present &#8211; the American writer and conservative &#8216;hawk&#8217; Mark Helprin, and rocker Ted Nugent. Helprin is on a lot of shortlists as &#8216;world&#8217;s greatest living writer&#8217;, but that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-35\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-MAK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186791,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186790\/revisions\/186791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}