{"id":466,"date":"2009-02-06T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:13:16","slug":"quote-of-the-day-courtesy-of-rex-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/quote-of-the-day-courtesy-of-rex-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day, courtesy of Rex Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, my beloved wife gave me something I&#8217;ve wanted for a long time, a Sony Reader. (Reader, Kindle, whatever, I just wanted something.) <\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been churning through the written word at a rate I haven&#8217;t approached since I gave up my train commute last January. I&#8217;ve plenty of e-books saved up in anticipation of getting a reader device of some sort, and right now I&#8217;m going through my collection of the complete works of Rex Stout. I&#8217;m only on <em>Fer-de-lance<\/em>, for you Nero Wolfe lovers out there, but I ran into a quote that suits me and my interests. It came from Archie, but he was paraphrasing his boss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, my beloved wife gave me something I&#8217;ve wanted for a long time, a Sony Reader. (Reader, Kindle, whatever, I just wanted something.) So, I&#8217;ve been churning through the written word at a rate I haven&#8217;t approached since I gave up my train commute last January. I&#8217;ve plenty of e-books saved up in anticipation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-7w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}