{"quotes":[{"text":"Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and dreams never end!What is time?","author":"John Siwicki","tags":["amazon","books","goodreads","japan","john","poetry","psychological-thriller","siwicki","suspense","wisconsin","writer"],"id":53407,"author_id":"John+Siwicki"},{"text":"Things are more like they are now...Than they have EVER been before!","author":"Uncle Arnie Mamath","tags":["arnie","arnold","cec","chicago","florida","illinois","lagrange","mamath","poetry","reality","true","uncle","wisconsin","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":56975,"author_id":"Uncle+Arnie+Mamath"},{"text":"Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.","author":"Ron Johnson","tags":["excellent","wisconsin","some "],"id":72933,"author_id":"Ron+Johnson"},{"text":"But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along like a drunkard in the dark, but to light its way by the best torches of knowledge and understanding it could find.","author":"Adlai Stevenson","tags":["academia","government","madison","public-university","research","society","uwmadison","wisconsin","wisconsin-idea"],"id":146221,"author_id":"Adlai+Stevenson"},{"text":"In addition, when they talked as if city people lived by different values, they were not emphasizing abortion, or gay marriage, or the things that are typically pointed to as the cultural issues that divide lower-income whites from the Democratic Party. Instead, the values they talked about were intertwined with economic concerns.","author":"Katherine J. Cramer","tags":["cultural-differences","politics","rural","rural-america","wisconsin"],"id":146503,"author_id":"Katherine+J.+Cramer"},{"text":"Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.","author":"Seanan McGuire","tags":["seasons","spring","winter","wisconsin"],"id":147911,"author_id":"Seanan+McGuire"},{"text":"You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.","author":"Joan Bauer","tags":["issues","wisconsin","youth"],"id":192825,"author_id":"Joan+Bauer"},{"text":"In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear.","author":"Flynn Meaney","tags":["cold","cold-days","humor","north-pole","teens","winter","wisconsin"],"id":292609,"author_id":"Flynn+Meaney"},{"text":"New beginnings come with the tail of the red-winged blackbird. Here’s to hoping my daddy was right.","author":"Austin Cochran","tags":["horror","horror-","horror-fantasy","wisconsin"],"id":321898,"author_id":"Austin+Cochran"},{"text":"I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.","author":"John Ashbery","tags":["assistance","independence","nosiness","poem","poetry","travel","wisconsin"],"id":323923,"author_id":"John+Ashbery"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}