{"id":15082,"date":"2012-03-08T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2012-03-08T05:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:22:34","slug":"is-mitt-romney-unusually-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"Is Mitt Romney unusually stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been assuming that Romney is pretty sharp. But now I&#8217;m wondering. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mitt-romney-how-i-would-check-irans-nuclear-ambition\/2012\/03\/05\/gIQAneYItR_story.html?hpid=z6\">Romney&#8217;s big Iran op-ed<\/a> in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until Iran ceases its nuclear-bomb program, I will press for ever-tightening sanctions, acting with other countries if we can but alone if we must.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an experiment: Take a ball of clay and tighten pressure on it with your fist, using all five fingers. That works pretty well &#8212; some bits of clay may escape, but for the most part you can squeeze the clay really, really hard.<\/p>\n<p>Now try squeezing it with one finger acting alone and see how well that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been assuming that Romney is pretty sharp. But now I&#8217;m wondering. From Romney&#8217;s big Iran op-ed in the Washington Post. Until Iran ceases its nuclear-bomb program, I will press for ever-tightening sanctions, acting with other countries if we can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-in-the-news","category-iran-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15103,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}