{"id":2622,"date":"2012-09-20T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:59:07","slug":"romneys-ads-show-miners-not-paid-during-campaign-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/romneys-ads-show-miners-not-paid-during-campaign-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s ads show miners not paid during campaign stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, went up with the two ads this morning \u2013 both of them hitting President Barack Obama on coal. The two ads titled &#8220;War on Coal&#8221; and &#8220;Way of Life&#8221; include shots of Romney on a stage with soot-covered coal miners.<\/p>\n<p>The footage is from Romney\u2019s Aug. 14 campaign stop at the Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, owned by a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. It was later learned that the miners on stage were ordered out of the mine because of Romney\u2019s campaign stop and were not paid for the portion of their shift that was canceled by the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTFTjJS4GtE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/09\/19\/Romneyxs_new_ads_in_Ohio_hit_Obama_on_coal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Romney&#8217;s ads show miners not paid during campaign stop | The Columbus Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, went up with the two ads this morning \u2013 both of them hitting President Barack Obama on coal. The two ads titled &#8220;War on Coal&#8221; and &#8220;Way of Life&#8221; include shots of Romney on a stage with soot-covered coal miners. The footage is from Romney\u2019s Aug. 14 campaign stop at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,22],"tags":[127,1497,1498,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}