{"id":1841,"date":"2011-10-06T05:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:21","slug":"i-also-will-not-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/10\/i-also-will-not-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"I Also Will Not Run for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without prayer or serious consideration, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/palin-statement-on-decision-not-to-run-for-gop-presidential-nomination\/2011\/10\/05\/gIQAu1OeOL_story.html\">also<\/a> decided not to seek the nomination for President of the United  States in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In making this difficult decision, as always, my family comes first, but my wildly successful blog comes in a close second.\u00a0 And third, if I were your President, I would have to move to Washington, D.C., and you all know how I hate the Beltway.\u00a0 I mean, I-95 really bites.<\/p>\n<p>I believe at this time I can be more  effective pulling weeds and transplanting overgrown shrubs in my yard, while other true public servants  do the hard work of drumming up campaign funds every month.\u00a0 In the meantime, we need to continue working to restore our greatness, starting with 24-hour-a-day reruns of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation\"><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thank those who have supported me throughout the years, and especially those who kept asking me and asking me:\u00a0 Am I going to run?\u00a0 Am I going to run?\u00a0 I would have kept you guessing longer but I noticed some of you were drifting away, so I had to say something to get your attention.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming  weeks, I will continue to eat great meals prepared by my wife, attend local arts-and-crafts shows on weekends, and work in the yard.\u00a0 God bless America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without prayer or serious consideration, I have also decided not to seek the nomination for President of the United States in 2012. In making this difficult decision, as always, my family comes first, but my wildly successful blog comes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/10\/i-also-will-not-run-for-president\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}