{"id":91570,"date":"2016-03-27T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91570"},"modified":"2016-03-27T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:10:39","slug":"reflections-on-ted-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91570","title":{"rendered":"Reflections On Ted Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/articles\/65888\/sex-scandal-who-cares\">Professor F.H. Buckley writes<\/a>: Now the story has gone public, thanks to a muck-raking journal that as it happened also outed John Edwards. And everyone is wondering whether the story is true.<\/p>\n<p>Except me. Because I don\u2019t much care if it\u2019s true. Given Heidi, I wouldn\u2019t blame Ted. After all, she apparently refuses to live with him. And given Ted, I wouldn\u2019t blame Heidi.<\/p>\n<p>Novelists will sometimes mention some little incident that doesn\u2019t really move the story line, but which nonetheless matters. The little incident that sticks in my mind is the story that she once ran out of the house and was found on the side of the highway by the police, who thought her suicidal. What sticks in my mind is that Ted hadn\u2019t followed her.<\/p>\n<p>From that story I have taken a picture of a mind utterly concentrated in self and entirely devoid of empathy. Which seems to be how his colleagues have found him, everywhere he went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor F.H. Buckley writes: Now the story has gone public, thanks to a muck-raking journal that as it happened also outed John Edwards. And everyone is wondering whether the story is true. Except me. Because I don\u2019t much care if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91570","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=91570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91571,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91570\/revisions\/91571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}