{"id":5845,"date":"2012-01-09T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2012-01-09T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:08:21","slug":"do-you-hate-dogs-then-romney-is-your-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/do-you-hate-dogs-then-romney-is-your-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you hate dogs?  Then Romney is your candidate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah.  Romney is the one who strapped a dog to the roof of his car and drove hundreds of miles while the dog freaked out.  He used to tell the story all the time, for laughs, as I&#8217;m sure people listened to him with an insincere smile pasted on their faces waiting for him to finish.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. &#8221;Dad!&#8221; he yelled. &#8221;Gross!&#8221; A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who&#8217;d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.<\/p>\n<p>As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/specials\/romney\/articles\/part4_main\/?page=full\">Read the whole story here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Then, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/obama-for-america-2012-campaign-na?undefined\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. Romney is the one who strapped a dog to the roof of his car and drove hundreds of miles while the dog freaked out. He used to tell the story all the time, for laughs, as I&#8217;m sure people listened to him with an insincere smile pasted on their faces waiting for him to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/do-you-hate-dogs-then-romney-is-your-candidate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you hate dogs?  Then Romney is your candidate!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[309],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1wh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}