{"id":1066,"date":"2011-12-14T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:17:06","slug":"romney-confronted-by-gay-vietnam-vet-on-same-sex-marriage-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/romney-confronted-by-gay-vietnam-vet-on-same-sex-marriage-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Confronted By Gay Vietnam Vet On Same-Sex Marriage Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and journalists always run a risk when they judge a voter strictly on on appearances.<\/p>\n<p>There was a reminder of that Monday when Mitt Romney was forced to defend his opposition to gay marriage during a restaurant encounter with a grizzled Vietnam veteran who happened to be gay.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out the vet, Bob Garon, also was sitting at a restaurant booth with his husband when the unsuspecting Romney, campaigning at the Manchester restaurant, asked if he could sit down with them.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2011\/12\/12\/143591704\/romney-confronted-by-gay-vietnam-vet-on-marriage-stance?ft=1&amp;f=1014\">Romney Confronted By Gay Vietnam Vet On Same-Sex Marriage Stance : Its All Politics : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and journalists always run a risk when they judge a voter strictly on on appearances. There was a reminder of that Monday when Mitt Romney was forced to defend his opposition to gay marriage during a restaurant encounter with a grizzled Vietnam veteran who happened to be gay. As it turned out the vet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[681,122,301,682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}