{"id":1745,"date":"2012-03-15T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:15:23","slug":"quote-for-the-day-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/03\/15\/quote-for-the-day-163\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind\u2019s history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they\u2019re getting worse. We talk about the stress of modern life, but we\u2019re not chasing down wildebeest to eat, we\u2019re not being attacked by animals in the night. Unless you\u2019re a Vegas magician, in which case you are. But I think things will definitely be better for [my kids]. And also things are getting more peaceful. I mean, as much as I carry on about \u201clet\u2019s stop killing people overseas,\u201d person for person, we\u2019re killing fewer people than we ever have. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Penn Jillette, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/15\/god-is-not-great\" target=\"_blank\">Reason Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind\u2019s history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they\u2019re getting worse. We talk about the stress of modern life, but we\u2019re not chasing down wildebeest to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/03\/15\/quote-for-the-day-163\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}