{"id":8939,"date":"2013-12-13T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2013-12-13T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:20:27","slug":"the-return-of-the-clown-posse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-return-of-the-clown-posse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Clown Posse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elmer-gantry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elmer-gantry.jpg\" alt=\"elmer gantry\" width=\"256\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6780\" \/><\/a>God must be a Democrat. First Rick Santorum says that he might be open to a 2016 run, now Mike Huckabee appears to be mulling a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times <\/em>h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/14\/us\/politics\/huckabee-open-to-joining-2016-gop-presidential-field.html?hp&#038;_r=2&#038;\">as the details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas has not been among the Republicans frequently named as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, but he would like that to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m keeping the door open,\u201d Mr. Huckabee said in an interview here Thursday night about the possibility of seeking his party\u2019s nomination again. \u201cI think right now the focus needs to be on 2014, but I\u2019m mindful of the fact that there\u2019s a real opportunity for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr. Huckabee dismissed the notion that pride was a factor in his decision to float a possible campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Huckabee does decide to run again, I will <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/nutabee\/\">as usual<\/a> be waiting to see if he is willing to release the text of his sermons from back in the day. He has always been rather reluctant to do so. Can&#8217;t think why. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God must be a Democrat. First Rick Santorum says that he might be open to a 2016 run, now Mike Huckabee appears to be mulling a shot. The New York Times has the details: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Former Gov. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-return-of-the-clown-posse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[979,777,280,629,776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8941,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}