{"id":254,"date":"2007-08-12T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/254"},"modified":"2008-08-11T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:56:16","slug":"is-ron-paul-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/is-ron-paul-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ron Paul Running for President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to vote for Ron Paul.  He&#8217;s wrong on too many issues. Still, I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s running.  He talks about issues that make most candidates uncomfortable.  They&#8217;re issues that deserve to be debated.  The problem is, he also makes the press uncomfortable.  He scares the press, and then they try to pretend he doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Read this New York Times story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/us\/politics\/12straw.html?pagewanted=1&#038;hp\">Iowa straw poll<\/a>. It tells you who placed first, second, third, sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Ron Paul came in fifth?  Only if you read it somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to vote for Ron Paul. He&#8217;s wrong on too many issues. Still, I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s running. He talks about issues that make most candidates uncomfortable. They&#8217;re issues that deserve to be debated. The problem is, he also makes the press uncomfortable. He scares the press, and then they try to pretend he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}