{"id":387,"date":"2004-02-23T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2004-02-23T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T20:16:21","slug":"native_son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Native Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

For once, Arnold Schwarzenegger and I agree on something<\/a>. The Constitutional requirement that the President be a natural-born citizen is archaic and disqualifies thousands of people who would otherwise be excellent candidates. For example, should the simple fact that I was born in Germany preclude a potential run for the presidency? It’s not that I have any political aspirations, but it would be nice to know that the option is available to me. I think I’d make a rather good President, though. I have the kind of rhetorical style that demands one’s attention. I could be the nation’s first blogging President. FDR<\/a> already has the First-President-in-A-Wheelchair title all wrapped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For once, Arnold Schwarzenegger and I agree on something. The Constitutional requirement that the President be a natural-born citizen is archaic and disqualifies thousands of people who would otherwise be excellent candidates. For example, should the simple fact that I was born in Germany preclude a potential run for the presidency? It’s not that I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}