{"id":2607,"date":"2012-09-19T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-09-19T07:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:34:31","slug":"jackson-ripley-12-year-old-coloradan-boy-writes-letter-to-romney-saying-his-plan-for-america-isnt-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/jackson-ripley-12-year-old-coloradan-boy-writes-letter-to-romney-saying-his-plan-for-america-isnt-what-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Ripley, 12-Year-Old Coloradan Boy, Writes Letter To Romney Saying His &#8216;Plan For America Isn&#8217;t What We Need&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Jackson Ripley was watching political news coverage with his mom about pre-existing health care when he suddenly got up and decided it was time to write a letter to Romney.<\/p>\n<p>The letter begins<em> (Editor note: all text from letter remains unedited):<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Governor Romney, I\u2019d like to say congratulations on winning the republican nomination. But, I wish you stayed in Massachusetts. You\u2019re plan for America isn\u2019t what we need, and would hurt us more than it would help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackson goes on to call out Romney on his health care stance and whether he actually will or won&#8217;t repeal Obamacare, especially with regard to patients with pre-existing conditions, citing contradicting statements from Romney on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and the &#8220;Tonight Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/18\/jackson-ripley-12-year-ol_n_1892456.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Ripley, 12-Year-Old Coloradan Boy, Writes Letter To Romney Saying His &#8216;Plan For America Isn&#8217;t What We Need&#8217; (PHOTOS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Jackson Ripley was watching political news coverage with his mom about pre-existing health care when he suddenly got up and decided it was time to write a letter to Romney. The letter begins (Editor note: all text from letter remains unedited): Dear Governor Romney, I\u2019d like to say congratulations on winning the republican&#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":[1484,57,1483,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}