{"id":15422,"date":"2016-04-13T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:09:29","slug":"why-you-oughta-believe-paul-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/04\/13\/why-you-oughta-believe-paul-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"why you oughta believe Paul Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we go ahead and assume that Paul Ryan would really want to be one of those &#8220;Presidents&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and, as evidence, we might point to the fact that he tried to be vice-president four years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>you have to know that the way to not do so is to win out in a brokered and bitterly divided convention, of modern historical anomaly, where he wasn&#8217;t even an option going in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; hell.\u00c2\u00a0 Better to be the Republican vice president this time around, coming out of that thicket.\u00c2\u00a0 See Roosevelt, circa 1920.<\/p>\n<p>Something like the luck Mitt Romney had in not winning the nomination in 2008, even if 2012 didn&#8217;t work out for him either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we go ahead and assume that Paul Ryan would really want to be one of those &#8220;Presidents&#8221;&#8230; &#8230; and, as evidence, we might point to the fact that he tried to be vice-president four years ago&#8230; you have to know that the way to not do so is to win out in a brokered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}