{"id":9315,"date":"2011-05-13T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:36:44","slug":"to-no-great-surprise-ron-paul-announces-his-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/to-no-great-surprise-ron-paul-announces-his-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"To no great surprise, Ron Paul announces his presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may not expect to win (he doesn&#8217;t have the support of the GOP backroom), but he will almost certainly make the race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/Republican+Paul+announces+White+House\/4778083\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">more interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Representative Ron Paul, who has been called the intellectual godfather of the Tea Party, said Friday that the \u201ctime is right\u201d for him to try once more to seize the Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican and anti-war libertarian announced his third White House bid on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d program, saying he is already seeing unprecedented grass-roots support for his long-held calls to reduce the federal debt, government spending and the size of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing in No. 1 in the Republican primary is an absolute possibility many, many times better than it was four years ago,\u201d said Mr. Paul, an obstetrician who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in 2008 and as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may not expect to win (he doesn&#8217;t have the support of the GOP backroom), but he will almost certainly make the race more interesting: U.S. Representative Ron Paul, who has been called the intellectual godfather of the Tea Party, said Friday that the \u201ctime is right\u201d for him to try once more to seize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,13],"tags":[188,550,517,419,327],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-libertarianism","tag-republican","tag-ronpaul","tag-teaparty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12426,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/12426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}