{"id":31231,"date":"2012-03-07T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/with_no_knockout_punch_a_bruising_republican_primary_battle_plods_on\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:14:58","slug":"with_no_knockout_punch_a_bruising_republican_primary_battle_plods_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31231","title":{"rendered":"With No Knockout Punch, a Bruising Republican Primary Battle Plods On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney won the delegates, but not necessarily the argument.<\/p>\n<p>His quest to win the Republican presidential nomination has always resembled a detailed, methodical business plan. Mr. Romney, who spent much of his life fixing troubled corporations, must now decide whether steps are necessary to repair his lethargic candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Romney had hoped that a string of Super Tuesday victories in contests from Vermont to Alaska would effectively bring the Republican race to a close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/no-super-tuesday-knockout-punch.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney won the delegates, but not necessarily the argument. His quest to win the Republican presidential nomination has always resembled a detailed, methodical business plan. Mr. Romney, who spent much of his life fixing troubled corporations, must now decide<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31231\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,168,114,96,616,151,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}