{"id":127948,"date":"2015-09-11T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/for-sale-one-pair-of-smart-person-glasses-lightly-used.html"},"modified":"2015-09-11T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T01:16:59","slug":"for-sale-one-pair-of-smart-person-glasses-lightly-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/for-sale-one-pair-of-smart-person-glasses-lightly-used.html","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: One Pair of Smart Person Glasses, Lightly Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were only eleventy-dozen.<\/p>\n<p>I have to think that Perry might have done better in a less over-crowded field than he&#39;s been in this election cycle. I don&#39;t recall him saying anything notoriously stupid this time &#8212; though, to be fair, I don&#39;t recall him saying much of anything at all. Between the Presumptive Front Runner Who Hasn&#39;t (Bush) and the Trump \/ Carson \/ Cruz \/ Huckabee Zany Wagon, and the plethora of other governors (Scott, Walker, Jindal), Perry just couldn&#39;t squeeze in edgewise.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought his chances were good, mind you. But in the hothouse overgrowth of the GOP nomination greenhouse, he never stood a chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/rick-perry-drops-2016-presidential-race\/story?id=33696891'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ZrmxSsgYm7Pn8LEcbRyikrbECPeq5XQigXCL4oW8tNvZgXvAL6v6eYKxezenwMWeeD2K-PKj02wPNP_Cc3Fab02ST-isJwLyzsBwDs4xOBq-ieS1CqZA7Gg=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/rick-perry-drops-2016-presidential-race\/story?id=33696891'>Rick Perry Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race &#8211; ABC News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WHZ11rxx8HB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were only eleventy-dozen. I have to think that Perry might have done better in a less over-crowded field than he&#39;s been in this election cycle. I don&#39;t recall him saying anything notoriously stupid this time &#8212; though, to be fair, I don&#39;t recall him saying much of anything at all. Between the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/for-sale-one-pair-of-smart-person-glasses-lightly-used.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Sale: One Pair of Smart Person Glasses, Lightly Used&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23743,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/so-what-youre-saying-is-hes-unprepared-got-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":127948,"position":0},"title":"So what you&#39;re saying is he&#39;s unprepared &#8230; got it","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 6:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, I do appreciate Rick Perry's wife trying to defend him. 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