{"id":1742,"date":"2012-08-11T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2012-08-11T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:38:21","slug":"politics-interlude-romney-selects-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2012\/08\/politics-interlude-romney-selects-ryan.html","title":{"rendered":"Politics interlude: Romney selects Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/azizpoonawalla\/2012\/08\/veep-president-obama-selects-paul-ryan-as-mitt-romneys-running-mate\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2012\/08\/romney-ryan-2012-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"romney-ryan-2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1744\" \/><\/a>As a brief aside, I am also doing political blogging at Patheos.com&#8217;s Faith and Politics portal &#8211; anyone interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/azizpoonawalla\/2012\/08\/chick-fil-a-and-the-lost-art-of-political-persuasion\/\">my take on Chick-fil-A<\/a>, or my thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/azizpoonawalla\/2012\/08\/veep-president-obama-selects-paul-ryan-as-mitt-romneys-running-mate\/\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s selection of Paul Ryan<\/a> for veep? Do stop by and take a look!<\/p>\n<p>My main focus is still on Ramadan blogging here at Beliefnet of course, but I assume at least some of my readers are more than passing interested in politics given we have a major election in less than 90 days \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a brief aside, I am also doing political blogging at Patheos.com&#8217;s Faith and Politics portal &#8211; anyone interested in my take on Chick-fil-A, or my thoughts on Mitt Romney&#8217;s selection of Paul Ryan for veep? Do stop by and take a look! My main focus is still on Ramadan blogging here at Beliefnet of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[305,25,26,32],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-this","tag-305","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-republicans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Politics interlude: Romney selects Ryan  - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politics interlude: Romney selects Ryan  - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a brief aside, I am also doing political blogging at Patheos.com&#8217;s Faith and Politics portal &#8211; anyone interested in my take on Chick-fil-A, or my thoughts on Mitt Romney&#8217;s selection of Paul Ryan for veep? 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