{"id":171,"date":"2004-10-22T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T02:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-03-09T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T18:25:44","slug":"quotations-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/10\/quotations-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotations of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the quotations that struck me today.<\/p>\n<p>When love is gone, there&#8217;s always justice.<br \/>And when justice is gone, there&#8217;s always force.<br \/>And when force is gone, there&#8217;s always Mom.<br \/>Hi, Mom!     <br \/>&#8211;Laurie Anderson<\/p>\n<p>To produce things and to rear them,<br \/>To produce, but not to take possession of them,<br \/>To act, but not to rely on one&#8217;s own ability,<br \/>To lead them, but not to master them &#8211;<br \/>This is called profound and secret virtue. <br \/>&#8211;Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu  <\/p>\n<p>America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. <br \/>&#8211;Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<p>I have an existential map. It has &#8216;You are here&#8217; written all over it. <br \/>&#8211;Steven Wright <\/p>\n<p>Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. <br \/>&#8211;Plato (427 BC &#8211; 347 BC) <\/p>\n<p>Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. <br \/>&#8211;Blaise Pascal (1623 &#8211; 1662)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the quotations that struck me today. When love is gone, there&#8217;s always justice.And when justice is gone, there&#8217;s always force.And when force is gone, there&#8217;s always Mom.Hi, Mom! &#8211;Laurie Anderson To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one&#8217;s own ability,To lead them, but not to master them &#8211;This is called profound and secret virtue. &#8211;Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu America is the only country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/10\/quotations-of-the-day\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}