{"id":2847,"date":"2018-05-10T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2018-05-10T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:59:38","slug":"10may2018-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/10may2018-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"10MAY2018 &#8211; Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ray Bradbury turned Americana into fantasy (and sometimes horror).\u00a0 But Dandelion Wine is his love song to small town America circa 1928.\u00a0 And one of the lessons he tries to teach is that progress doesn&#8217;t always mean improvement.\u00a0 Too bad the family is one of the things that doesn&#8217;t look like it will survive 21st Century America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You want to see the real happiness machine? The one they patented a couple thousand years ago. It still runs; not good all the time, no! but it runs. 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