{"id":2499,"date":"2011-04-27T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2011-04-27T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T12:37:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShould I tell you the most damning thing I ever heard about the Soviet block? Just before the wheel finally came off in East Germany you couldn\u2019t get a shredder for love nor money in West Germany. The STASI were shredding at a rate to keep all Europe in hamster bedding till 2050 and true socialism couldn\u2019t keep up with the demand for shredders so they had to buy them from the West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countingcats.com\/?p=9675&amp;cpage=1#comment-45943\">Nick M.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShould I tell you the most damning thing I ever heard about the Soviet block? Just before the wheel finally came off in East Germany you couldn\u2019t get a shredder for love nor money in West Germany. The STASI were shredding at a rate to keep all Europe in hamster bedding till 2050 and true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[227,621,639,640,719],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-communist","tag-politics","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-quotes","tag-soviet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Ej","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}