{"id":1103,"date":"2003-04-11T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T09:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/12\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:19:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/11\/quote-of-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14875,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/ny-vpltr11a3215924apr11,0,7427370.story?coll=ny%2Dopinion%2Darchive&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/ny-vpltr11a3215924apr11,0,7427370.story?coll=ny-opinion-archive&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If a vocal minority of colonists had protested the Revolution the way these disingenuous appeasers do today, we&#8217;d all be speaking English.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Jim O&#8217;Neill, of Brooklyn, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-vpltr11a3215924apr11,0,7427370.story?coll=ny%2Dopinion%2Darchive\" title=\"Letters to the Editor\">letter to Newsday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a vocal minority of colonists had protested the Revolution the way these disingenuous appeasers do today, we&#8217;d all be speaking English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}