{"id":15676,"date":"2010-01-04T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T02:10:32","slug":"dennis-prager-expects-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15676","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager For President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his second hour of his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;If I ran for president, and I am actually thinking of doing so, I don&#8217;t expect to win but I would like to throw my hat in because I believe the number of Republicans who can inspire Americans to understand the great American calling is small. I wish it weren&#8217;t because I am not a political animal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In marketing terms, this is called &#8220;the reluctant hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Think about the protagonist in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0172495\/\">Gladiator<\/a>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112573\/\">Braveheart<\/a> or <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0187393\/\">The Patriot<\/a>. These are reluctant heroes. They just want to stay home to be with their families. They don&#8217;t want to fight. They only fight because the bad guys give them no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his second hour of his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;If I ran for president, and I am actually thinking of doing so, I don&#8217;t expect to win but I would like to throw my hat in because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15676\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29761,20840,20841,20839,20838],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-dennis-prager","tag-marketing-terms","tag-political-animal","tag-reluctant-hero","tag-reluctant-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15682,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}