{"id":1161,"date":"2012-01-13T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2012-01-13T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:59:21","slug":"gop-candidate-passed-off-home-economics-degree-as-economics-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/gop-candidate-passed-off-home-economics-degree-as-economics-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Candidate Passed Off \u2018Home Economics\u2019 Degree As \u2018Economics\u2019 Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence liked to tout his \u201ceconomics\u201d degree on his website and at campaign events \u2014 but in reality his degree was less about bookkeeping and more about housekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>Until Thursday, Spence (R) had claimed on his campaign website that he \u201cearned a degree in Economics\u201d from the University of Missouri (screenshot here). But on Tuesday, Jake Wagman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch pointed out that this was a bit of a stretch \u2014 Spence\u2019s degree was in home economics.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/01\/gop_candidate_passed_off_home_economics_degree_as.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\">GOP Candidate Passed Off \u2018Home Economics\u2019 Degree As \u2018Economics\u2019 Degree | TPMMuckraker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence liked to tout his \u201ceconomics\u201d degree on his website and at campaign events \u2014 but in reality his degree was less about bookkeeping and more about housekeeping. Until Thursday, Spence (R) had claimed on his campaign website that he \u201cearned a degree in Economics\u201d from the University of Missouri (screenshot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4,22,7],"tags":[766,183,26,765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"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=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}