{"id":593,"date":"2008-07-21T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2008-07-21T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T13:24:28","slug":"and-they-were-worried-about-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"And they were worried about Mitt Romney&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, John McCain was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,6298625,print.story\">almost a polygamist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s no larger point I&#8217;m trying to make about this.\u00a0 You can be a scumbag and still be a good president. (See <em>Clinton, Bill<\/em>).\u00a0 But as John McCain wants to make this election about character instead of issues (probably because most of his stands on issues are unpopular &#8211; and on virtually no issues can he appease both the Republican base and the general electorate) tawdry details like this becomes more relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, John McCain was almost a polygamist: Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his [&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":[22,45,4,52],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","category-scandal-mongering","tag-polygamy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-9z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}