{"id":30060,"date":"2012-09-01T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/the-first-years-are-hard-years-much-more-than-you-know.html"},"modified":"2012-09-01T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T17:16:44","slug":"the-first-years-are-hard-years-much-more-than-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/the-first-years-are-hard-years-much-more-than-you-know.html","title":{"rendered":"The first years are hard years (much more than you know &#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when you&#39;re Ann Romney.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that Mitt and Ann had financial worries in those days. I have no doubt that they were living a less-well-off life than both had growing up.<\/p>\n<p>But, heck, there are a lot of people who pull themselves through difficult times with a lot less to eat than tuna noodle casserole. And who don&#39;t have the luxury of not working (to study and\/or take care of the new kids) because \u00a0they have stock they can slowly cash in.<\/p>\n<p>If the intent was to show they&#39;re &quot;just plain folks&quot; who can empathize with those who are out of work or barely making it paycheck-to-paycheck &#8230; it wasn&#39;t a very well-fulfilled intent, to my mind.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theatlanticwire.com%2Fimg%2Fupload%2F2012%2F08%2F29%2FRTR377XI%2Flarge.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2012\/08\/fact-checking-ann-and-mitt-romneys-hardknock-early-years\/56321\/'>Fact-Checking Ann and Mitt Romney&#39;s Hardknock Early Years<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you didn&#39;t know much about Mitt and Ann Romney&#39;s biography, you might have gotten the impression from Ann&#39;s speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night that they were once two crazy &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XLCUG7t4352' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XLCUG7t4352' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when you&#39;re Ann Romney. I have no doubt that Mitt and Ann had financial worries in those days. I have no doubt that they were living a less-well-off life than both had growing up. But, heck, there are a lot of people who pull themselves through difficult times with a lot less to eat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/the-first-years-are-hard-years-much-more-than-you-know.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first years are hard years (much more than you know &#8230;)&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2833,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/15\/saturday_scrupl.html","url_meta":{"origin":30060,"position":0},"title":"Saturday Scruples","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Sep-02 12:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the Saturday Scruples....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personal Q&amp;A&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personal Q&amp;A","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personal-qa"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/02\/oh_come_now.html","url_meta":{"origin":30060,"position":1},"title":"Oh, come now","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Jun-04 7:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Neither John Kerry nor Dubya can claim to live like the \"common man\" or \"Joe Paycheck\" or anything like that. 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