{"id":914,"date":"2010-07-07T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/07\/07\/quote-for-the-day-31\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:20:00","slug":"quote-for-the-day-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/07\/07\/quote-for-the-day-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago \u201cWould you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world\u2019s music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don\u2019t have to die of dental abcesses and you don\u2019t have to do what the squire tells you\u201d they\u2019d think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say \u2018yes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series of fantasy books.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago \u201cWould you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world\u2019s music and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/07\/07\/quote-for-the-day-31\/\">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":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}