{"id":53278,"date":"2016-02-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_michael_bloomberg_says_he_is_eyeing_2016_run_for_the_white_house\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:00:00","slug":"ft_michael_bloomberg_says_he_is_eyeing_2016_run_for_the_white_house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53278","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Michael Bloomberg says he is eyeing 2016 run for the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media owner and former New York mayor, has stated for the first time that he is considering a run for US president, a move that would dramatically reshape the 2016 race for the White House.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the Financial Times, the founder of the eponymous financial information group criticised the quality of the debate in the \u201d\u2039presidential \u201d\u2039race. He said \u201d\u2039that \u201d\u2039he was \u201clooking at all the options\u201d\u009d when asked whether he was considering putting his name forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters,\u201d\u009d Mr Bloomberg said in an interview, before adding that the US public deserved \u201ca lot better\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/b6d1fc34-ce9f-11e5-831d-09f7778e7377.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media owner and former New York mayor, has stated for the first time that he is considering a run for US president, a move that would dramatically reshape the 2016 race for the White House. Speaking<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53278\">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":[39,40,149,133,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-history","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53278","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=53278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}