Another great John Irving quote:
\n"The only way you can get [most] Americans to notice<\/i> anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another great John Irving quote: "The only way you can get [most] Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-irving","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/02\/irving-quote\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":0},"title":"irving quote","author":"nathaniel","date":"02 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Two presently relevant quotes from John Irving's A Prayer for Own Meany (author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules), written in the 80s. The first is about the Reagan Iran-contra schpeel, though rings truer now. The next was supposed to have been said in 1961,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1001,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/a-quote-from-the-la-times-we-love-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":1},"title":"a quote from the LA Times (we love them)","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"from Bush, GOP Downsize Ambitions for 2006 - Los Angeles Times: After the 2004 elections gave Bush his second term and Republicans wider margins of control in Congress, an emboldened president promised big changes, not incremental tinkering. Rove was hailed as the architect of GOP victories. 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Surprisingly, I really like how Al\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1811,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/bill-ivey-and-the-obama-arts-transition-team\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":3},"title":"Bill Ivey and the Obama Arts Transition Team","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 February 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Lee Rosenbaum aka CultureGrrl spoke to Bill Ivey this week (Art Politico: My Interview with Bill Ivey, Leader of President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arts Transition Team - CultureGrrl) Money Quote: There are some advantages for artists and arts organizations to position themselves as unique, especially entitled, especially important. 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