{"id":571,"date":"2008-02-12T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/12\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-118\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T14:34:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/12\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Regarding politicians] . . . like any group of people selected for ambition and nothing else, they turn out to be a pretty bad lot. Like mandarins in China, colonial administrators in the British Empire, lawyers in old North America, or the reconstruction agencies after the Slaughter &#8212; individually there are decent people who do some good, but as a class they\u2019re amoral, vicious leeches with a good cover story. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Barnes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Million-Open-Doors-Giraut\/dp\/0812516338\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1202826943&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>A Million Open Doors<\/em><\/a><\/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>[Regarding politicians] . . . like any group of people selected for ambition and nothing else, they turn out to be a pretty bad lot. Like mandarins in China, colonial administrators in the British Empire, lawyers in old North America, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/12\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-118\/\">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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}