{"id":9013,"date":"2020-06-15T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2020-06-15T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:20:14","slug":"black-lives-matter-to-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/black-lives-matter-to-mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter to Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong>.&nbsp; Being a native Bostonian, I have a long history with Mr. Romney.&nbsp; While I have not agreed with him on many issues, he strikes me as someone who does what he believes is right \u2013 even if it may not be what\u2019s right for him.&nbsp; And he certainly doesn\u2019t pander.&nbsp; In the recent past, Romney has done more good than most politicians \u2013 starting with breaking party lines to impeach <em>El Presidente<\/em>.&nbsp; And last week, he marched with <em>Black Lives Matter<\/em>.&nbsp; Sure, there\u2019s no way to know if he\u2019s being sincere, but at least he\u2019s doing the right thing.&nbsp; So just for that, I say bravo, Mitt.&nbsp; If <strong>Joe Biden <\/strong>really wants to make a statement about unity, why not reach across the aisle and ask Romney to be his VP?&nbsp; Yes, I know he promised to choose a woman.&nbsp; If Mitt really wants to heal our nation, he could get a teensy little procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s Mitt Romney.&nbsp; Being a native Bostonian, I have a long history with Mr. Romney.&nbsp; While I have not agreed with him on many issues, he strikes me as someone who does what he believes is right \u2013 even if it may not be what\u2019s right for him.&nbsp; And he certainly doesn\u2019t pander.&nbsp; In<\/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-9013","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\/9013","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=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9022,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}