{"id":327,"date":"2012-04-11T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/?p=327"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:35:47","slug":"byebye-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/2012\/04\/11\/byebye-santorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Byebye Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure how I feel that Santorum has dropped out of the race for President. On one hand, of course, I am glad because there was such a severe divide between his political philosophy and my own. On the other hand, however, part of me was hoping he would be the Republican candidate because I felt Obama would have a much easier time beating him than the rest of the Republican alternatives. This notion provided me with some comfort. But now I am not sure exactly who to root for. I saw this hilarious photo and I had to share (A lot of the reasons I had problems with Santorum stemmed from his anti-LGBT mentality and also from his puritanical views on contraception):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/files\/2012\/04\/575419_10150733431902402_515622401_9473351_728866097_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-328\" title=\"575419_10150733431902402_515622401_9473351_728866097_n\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/files\/2012\/04\/575419_10150733431902402_515622401_9473351_728866097_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/files\/2012\/04\/575419_10150733431902402_515622401_9473351_728866097_n.jpeg 693w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/files\/2012\/04\/575419_10150733431902402_515622401_9473351_728866097_n-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day (and I find it extremely hard to do this) I need to remember that politicians, no matter how much I disagree with their opinions, are people. And I shouldn&#8217;t hate people. Even people like Rick Santorum. It is, ultimately, his philosophy and political\/social views that I hate. So on that note, I wish him and his family the best. And I hope his little girl gets better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure how I feel that Santorum has dropped out of the race for President. On one hand, of course, I am glad because there was such a severe divide between his political philosophy and my own. On the other hand, however, part of me was hoping he would be the Republican candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ludmila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}