{"id":4887,"date":"2019-04-14T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2019-04-14T21:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:05:40","slug":"rock-paper-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/rock-paper-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock, Paper, Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was flabbergasted when I read that&nbsp;<strong>Karen Pence&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Mike Pence<\/strong>\u2019s handsome wife \u2013 felt that openly gay presidential candidate&nbsp;<strong>Pete Buttigieg&nbsp;<\/strong>was bringing up her husband for publicity.&nbsp; She took issue with Mayor Pete mentioning Pence\u2019s support for conversion therapy.&nbsp; The specific quote which set her off was this: \u201cThat\u2019s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand, that if you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is not with me.&nbsp; Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.\u201d&nbsp; Mrs. Pence and her daughter&nbsp;<strong>Charlotte&nbsp;<\/strong>were promoting that precious little bunny book on&nbsp;<strong>Brian Kilmeade<\/strong>\u2019s radio program.&nbsp; Karen said, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny because I don\u2019t think the vice president does have a problem with him.&nbsp; But I think it\u2019s helping Pete to get some notoriety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case you don\u2019t know, prior to becoming vice president, Pence was the governor of Indiana, and Buttigieg is mayor of South Bend.&nbsp; It should be noted that Pence never specifically attacked Mayor Pete \u2013 just like it should be noted that Mayor Pete didn\u2019t call out Mr. Pence; he called out \u201cthe Mike Pences of the world\u201d.&nbsp; But Mrs. Pence might actually be onto something.&nbsp; Pete Buttigieg is currently polling third in New Hampshire \u2013 behind&nbsp;<strong>Bernie Sanders&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>, who hasn\u2019t even declared his candidacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was flabbergasted when I read that&nbsp;Karen Pence&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Mike Pence\u2019s handsome wife \u2013 felt that openly gay presidential candidate&nbsp;Pete Buttigieg&nbsp;was bringing up her husband for publicity.&nbsp; She took issue with Mayor Pete mentioning Pence\u2019s support for conversion therapy.&nbsp; The specific quote which set her off was this: \u201cThat\u2019s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}