{"id":2752,"date":"2009-04-16T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T00:15:47","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Kass, former judge: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Language is vague and subject to different meanings and interpretations, but these Originalists, and WWJD people, insist that they have an inside track on what the Founding Fathers (who didn&#8217;t even agree with each other, back then) would do, or on what Jesus would do, if he\/they had been faced with today&#8217;s problems. The Founding Fathers are not available to be questioned or to speak for themselves so people like Scalia just make shit up and project it onto them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyfornewmexico.com\/democracy_for_new_mexico\/2009\/04\/anne-kass-guest-blog-scalia-in-albuquerque.html\">Democracy for New Mexico: Anne Kass Guest Blog: Scalia in Albuquerque<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Kass, former judge: Language is vague and subject to different meanings and interpretations, but these Originalists, and WWJD people, insist that they have an inside track on what the Founding Fathers (who didn&#8217;t even agree with each other, back then) would do, or on what Jesus would do, if he\/they had been faced with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/quote-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}