{"id":2499,"date":"2012-09-04T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2012-09-04T07:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:28:31","slug":"watch-mitt-romney-accidentally-calls-the-united-states-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/watch-mitt-romney-accidentally-calls-the-united-states-a-company\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Mitt Romney Accidentally Calls the United States a &#8220;Company&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a rally in Lakeland, Florida, on Friday morning, just hours after his much-anticipated acceptance speech at his party&#8217;s national convention.<\/p>\n<p>Romney must still be tired from last night&#8217;s big hurrah. In his stump speech on Friday, he mistakenly referred to the United States as a &#8220;company.&#8221; With his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Romney told supporters, &#8220;We will reach across the aisle and find good people who, like us, want to make sure this company deals with its challenges. We&#8217;ll get America on track again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/08\/mitt-romney-accidentally-calls-united-states-company\">WATCH: Mitt Romney Accidentally Calls the United States a &#8220;Company&#8221; | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5H3Ic4elo9I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a rally in Lakeland, Florida, on Friday morning, just hours after his much-anticipated acceptance speech at his party&#8217;s national convention. Romney must still be tired from last night&#8217;s big hurrah. In his stump speech on Friday, he mistakenly referred to the United States as a &#8220;company.&#8221; With his running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[495,1423,301,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}