{"id":17561,"date":"2013-03-29T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17561"},"modified":"2013-03-29T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:40:29","slug":"dont-cry-for-him-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17561\/dont-cry-for-him-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Cry for Him, Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sanford may not be worth your sympathy. So, in effect, <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/29\/bostic-and-sanford-battle-in-c\" target=\"_blank\">writes Robert Stacy McCain<\/a> in a column describing the disgraced former South Carolina governor&#8217;s attempt to make a political comeback in an open U.S. House seat. I had <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/sanford-it\">noted earlier <\/a>that Sanford&#8217;s problems weren&#8217;t just about sex. And in a prior column, McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/26\/south-carolina-showdown\" target=\"_blank\">more fully described<\/a> the background of Sanford&#8217;s primary opponent, Curtis Bostic.<\/p>\n<p>Whomever one supports in this race, it is a campaign well worth watching. Few Republican politicians make comebacks from scandals like Sanford&#8217;s. The question is, have standards now changed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sanford may not be worth your sympathy. So, in effect, writes Robert Stacy McCain in a column describing the disgraced former South Carolina governor&#8217;s attempt to make a political comeback in an open U.S. House seat. I had noted earlier that Sanford&#8217;s problems weren&#8217;t just about sex. And in a prior column, McCain more [&hellip;]<\/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":[4084,4083,4085],"class_list":["post-17561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-curtis-bostic","tag-mark-sanford","tag-robert-stacy-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561","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=17561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17562,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions\/17562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}