{"id":12745,"date":"2012-01-20T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2012-01-23T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:16:27","slug":"former-acu-pres-newt-could-blow-us-up-or-words-to-that-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12745\/former-acu-pres-newt-could-blow-us-up-or-words-to-that-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ACU Pres: Newt Could Blow Us Up (Or Words to That Effect)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Edwards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/12\/imagining-a-gingrich-presidency\/250243\/\" target=\"_blank\">former chairman<\/a>, American Conservative Union:<br \/>\n&#8220;To describe Gingrich as &#8216;volatile&#8217; is like describing Picasso as somebody who liked to draw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]here are those who fear for the country if he were ever to become president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, tough stuff. Surprised it didn&#8217;t get more play when it came out a month ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Edwards, former chairman, American Conservative Union: &#8220;To describe Gingrich as &#8216;volatile&#8217; is like describing Picasso as somebody who liked to draw.&#8221; &#8220;[T]here are those who fear for the country if he were ever to become president.&#8221; Wow, tough stuff. Surprised it didn&#8217;t get more play when it came out a month ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3295,869],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-american-conservative-union","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12756,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/12756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}