{"id":5850,"date":"2012-01-09T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:34:58","slug":"mitt-walked-up-to-me-and-said-that-he-had-some-experience-with-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/mitt-walked-up-to-me-and-said-that-he-had-some-experience-with-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mitt walked up to me and said that he had some experience with the press &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2083002\/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstrated-favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html\">Graham Smith has a nice piece<\/a> on Mitt Romney&#8217;s activities protesting during the Viet Nam War.  It includes an interesting photograph.<\/p>\n<p>This will not bother many of those who support him, but anyone who is leaning right these days but who thought the Draft and the Viet Nam war was bad, might want to know about his activities.  They were, of course, a long time ago, so it really does not matter much.  What does matter is that he was protesting to retain the draft at the same time that he was exempt from it, which makes Mitt Romney a bit of a dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Smith has a nice piece on Mitt Romney&#8217;s activities protesting during the Viet Nam War. It includes an interesting photograph. This will not bother many of those who support him, but anyone who is leaning right these days but who thought the Draft and the Viet Nam war was bad, might want to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/mitt-walked-up-to-me-and-said-that-he-had-some-experience-with-the-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Mitt walked up to me and said that he had some experience with the press &#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[345,894],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1wm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}