{"id":2234,"date":"2007-05-01T21:21:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T04:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/01\/defending-mitt-romney\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T04:21:59","slug":"defending-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/01\/defending-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"defending Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that I find Mitt Romney&#8217;s answer to the question of what his favorite book is, the answer being <em>Battlefield Earth <\/em>by L Ron Hubbard &#8212; with the caveat that he doesn&#8217;t think much of the religion or Hubbard, kind of refreshing.\u00c2\u00a0 It is impossible to peg this answer in any way as being in any way pandering, which means that &#8230; Mitt Romney evidently answered the question honestly, smirking from science fiction fans and anyone else be damned.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a George W Bush Summer reading list created for public consumption, believable to nobody.<\/p>\n<p>To mock this answer is to run into the age old riddle of politics: we either want completely polished and smooth politicians and attack mericilessly anything that smacks of a gaffe, or we want to pry the consultants away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that I find Mitt Romney&#8217;s answer to the question of what his favorite book is, the answer being Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard &#8212; with the caveat that he doesn&#8217;t think much of the religion or Hubbard, kind of refreshing.\u00c2\u00a0 It is impossible to peg this answer in any way as [&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-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}