{"id":1464,"date":"2004-03-20T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/20\/quote_of_the_da-5\/"},"modified":"2004-03-20T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T13:44:58","slug":"quote_of_the_da-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/20\/quote_of_the_da-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s only 8:30 in the morning and I haven\u2019t gotten much passed the front page of the newspaper, but I don\u2019t think I can find another quote as absurd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A9117-2004Mar19.html\">as this<\/a> if I read all day:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was also aware there were discussions between [legislative] staff and the actuary that I wasn&#8217;t aware of or apprised of.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;White House senior health policy adviser Doug Badger, who is suspected by Medicare\u2019s chief actuary of being behind the threats to fire him if he provided cost information to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s only 8:30 in the morning and I haven\u2019t gotten much passed the front page of the newspaper, but I don\u2019t think I can find another quote as absurd as this if I read all day: &#8220;I was also aware there were discussions between [legislative] staff and the actuary that I wasn&#8217;t aware of or&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/20\/quote_of_the_da-5\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}