{"id":1170,"date":"2012-01-17T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2012-01-17T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:59:14","slug":"romneys-father-was-illegal-mexican-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/romneys-father-was-illegal-mexican-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u2019s Father Was Illegal Mexican Immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be in the lead in the Palmetto state, but that doesn\u2019t mean South Carolinians necessarily like him.<\/p>\n<p>During a Fox News debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Monday, the Republican audience booed loudly after being told that Romney\u2019s father was born in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In a report last week, NBC revealed that Romney\u2019s great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, had fled to Mexico with other Mormons to escape persecution for polygamy. Romney\u2019s father, George, was later born in the northern Mexico colony of Colonia Dublan.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/01\/16\/gop-debate-audience-boos-romneys-mexican-heritage\/\">GOP debate audience boos Romney\u2019s Mexican heritage | The Raw Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be in the lead in the Palmetto state, but that doesn\u2019t mean South Carolinians necessarily like him. During a Fox News debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Monday, the Republican audience booed loudly after being told that Romney\u2019s father was born in Mexico. In a report last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,22],"tags":[26,96,302,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}