{"id":8901,"date":"2012-12-21T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2012-12-21T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:27:42","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The astounding thing about all the quackeries, fads, and movements of the past hundred years in America is that they were first accepted by superior people, by men and women of education, intelligence, breeding, wealth, and experience. Only after the upper classes had approved, the masses accepted each new thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Gilbert Seldes, <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stammering-Century-Review-Books-Classics\/dp\/1590175808\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Stammering Century<\/a><\/b><\/i> (1928)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s not <em>that<\/em> astounding; I long ago observed that high intelligence is not necessarily associated with common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astounding thing about all the quackeries, fads, and movements of the past hundred years in America is that they were first accepted by superior people, by men and women of education, intelligence, breeding, wealth, and experience. Only after the upper classes had approved, the masses accepted each new thing. \u2014Gilbert Seldes, The Stammering Century &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the day&#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":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-silly-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2jz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","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=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}