{"id":28332,"date":"2016-05-23T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28332"},"modified":"2016-05-23T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:45:59","slug":"quote-of-the-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28332","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only Monday, and I already have the quote of the week from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/va-chief-disney-doesnt-measure-wait-times-so-why-should-we\/article\/2592021?utm_content=buffer0f4d2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Veterans Affairs\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.9009027778,-77.0348238889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.9009027778,-77.0348238889 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Veterans%20Affairs)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Veterans Affairs<\/a> Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Disneyland\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.809,-117.919&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=33.809,-117.919 (Disneyland)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Disneyland<\/a>, and said his agency shouldn&#8217;t use wait times as a measure of success because <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Walt Disney Company\" href=\"http:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Disney<\/a> doesn&#8217;t either.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;When you got to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what&#8217;s important? What&#8217;s important is, what&#8217;s your satisfaction with the experience?&#8221; McDonald said Monday during a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Christian Science Monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/csmonitor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a> breakfast with reporters. &#8220;And what I would like to move to, eventually, is that kind of measure.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted out the appropriate response:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;This is not make-believe, Mr. Secretary. Veterans have died waiting in those lines.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only Monday, and I already have the quote of the week from The Washington Examiner: Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8687,9999,9998,2720,9550],"class_list":["post-28332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disneyland","tag-house-speaker-paul-ryan","tag-the-walt-disney-company","tag-the-washington-examiner","tag-veterans-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28333,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28332\/revisions\/28333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}