{"id":4001,"date":"2007-03-31T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/03\/31\/quote-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:01:17","slug":"quote-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/03\/31\/quote-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6044,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forum.rpg.net\\\/showthread.php?t=264472&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180720184141\\\/https:\\\/\\\/forum.rpg.net\\\/showthread.php?t=264472&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:03:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:55:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:55:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6045,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/learethak.livejournal.com\\\/40213.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/learethak.livejournal.com\\\/40213.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  There&#8217;s a long standing theory that Hollywood action movies deliberately play up US urban gang violence&#8230;a part of a propaganda effort to persuade foreigners that America is <em>not to be [messed] with<\/em>. The British equivalent is Faulty Towers and Monty Python, which simply makes people want to stay the hell away in case it&#8217;s contagious.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; originally somewhere in <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.rpg.net\/showthread.php?t=264472\" title=\"RPGnet Forums: [Photoshop] RPG Motivational Posters\">this forum thread<\/a>, via <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/learethak.livejournal.com\/40213.html\" alt=\"LiveJournal: learethak: Wisdom in the strangest places...\"><strong>learethak<\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a long standing theory that Hollywood action movies deliberately play up US urban gang violence&#8230;a part of a propaganda effort to persuade foreigners that America is _not to be [messed] with_. The British equivalent is Faulty Towers and Monty Python, which simply makes people want to stay the hell away in case it&#8217;s contagious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[6,16],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-humor","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","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=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}