{"id":2410,"date":"2013-07-09T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2013-07-09T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:04:41","slug":"perry-eyes-wide-open-field-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2410","title":{"rendered":"Perry eyes wide-open field of options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Career politician Rick Perry is likely to have some decisions in his future, such as: What am I going t do with the rest of my life?<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Texas governor announced Monday he won&#8217;t seek re-election to his umpteenth term. He&#8217;s dropping hints all over the place that he&#8217;s considering a run for president in 2016. Good luck with that one, guv&#8217;nuh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/08\/breaking-perry-not-seeking-re-election-for-governor\/comment-page-13\/\">http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/08\/breaking-perry-not-seeking-re-election-for-governor\/comment-page-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll step away from the governor&#8217;s office in January 2015, then likely will hit the speech-making circuit, making big-time money talking to political interest groups who favor his brand of conservatism. He&#8217;s likely as well to raise money <em>in case<\/em> he decides to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>But after he loses the GOP presidential primary contest for a second time in 2016, then he&#8217;ll have some time to really reflect on his future. It won&#8217;t include politics, which for a political animal such as Perry is likely to create something akin to a form of detoxification.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a post-Perry world in Texas government. My lingering curiosity, though, is wondering whether <em>Rick Perry<\/em> will be looking forward to a life without politics.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career politician Rick Perry is likely to have some decisions in his future, such as: What am I going t do with the rest of my life? The Republican Texas governor announced Monday he won&#8217;t seek re-election to his umpteenth term. He&#8217;s dropping hints all over the place that he&#8217;s considering a run for president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry eyes wide-open field of options<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}