{"id":5856,"date":"2012-06-05T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2012-06-05T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:40:12","slug":"telling-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5856","title":{"rendered":"Telling Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5014\" title=\"userpic=pacific-coast-route\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpacific-coast-route.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"68\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Some interesting quotes seen in articles perused over lunch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-boy-wonder-20120603,0,6960752,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article on one of the youngest students ever to get an MD<\/a> (I&#8217;d say a real-life &#8220;Doogie Houser&#8221;, but most folks don&#8217;t know what Neil Patrick Harris did before the Tonys or HIMYM):<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Davidson, who was on the same OB-GYN rotation, recalled the teenage Yano&#8217;s reaction to witnessing his first birth. &#8220;He just looked at all of us and said, &#8216;There&#8217;s <em>got<\/em> to be a better way.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-pew-partisan-divide-poll-20120604,0,3088351.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article on the sharp increase in the partisan divides among voters in the country<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Including those independents who lean one way or the other, Pew found 48% of adults supported the Democrats and 40% the Republicans. The relatively small group that did not lean either way stood out mostly for their disengagement from politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1679929\/stiffer-roads-could-save-billions-thats-right-stiffer-roads\" target=\"_blank\">an article about how stiffer roads could save lots of money<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>A study by MIT civil engineers found stiffening the nation\u2019s pavements could cut fuel use by 3%, the equivalent of 273 million barrels of crude oil, or $15 billion, per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Hot August Night NYC<\/em> (Neil Diamond): Cracklin&#8217; Rosie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting quotes seen in articles perused over lunch: \u00a0From an article on one of the youngest students ever to get an MD (I&#8217;d say a real-life &#8220;Doogie Houser&#8221;, but most folks don&#8217;t know what Neil Patrick Harris did before the Tonys or HIMYM): Davidson, who was on the same OB-GYN rotation, recalled the teenage <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5856\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}