{"id":3232,"date":"2016-04-18T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:01:36","slug":"cruz-what-do-we-have-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"CRUZ &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe Ted Cruz is the best offer we&#8217;ve had in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>He is the one true statesman since Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>Real Americans understand what it means to &#8220;bring America back&#8221; to what our founders created with great sacrifice and dependence on the Creator.<\/p>\n<p>It costs a lot to gain freedom&#8212;sacrifice, blood, lives, passion.<\/p>\n<p>It costs a lot to keep freedom&#8212;sacrifice, blood, lives, passion, and vigilance (the hardest during prosperity).<\/p>\n<p>It costs a lot more to lose freedom&#8212;trading a &#8220;mess of porridge&#8221; for promises of security&#8212;plus the futile sacrifices of blood, lives, and passion after it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz clearly understands all this.<\/p>\n<p>We need American voters who understand this now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe Ted Cruz is the best offer we&#8217;ve had in my lifetime. He is the one true statesman since Ronald Reagan. Real Americans understand what it means to &#8220;bring America back&#8221; to what our founders created with great sacrifice and dependence on the Creator. It costs a lot to gain freedom&#8212;sacrifice, blood, lives, passion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}