{"id":2993,"date":"2007-12-12T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/besides_first_girlfriend_just_sounds_lame.html"},"modified":"2007-12-12T07:35:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:35:52","slug":"besides_first_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/besides_first_g.html","title":{"rendered":"Besides, &#8220;First Girlfriend&#8221; Just Sounds Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/another_item_fo.html\">our haste<\/a>, we neglected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-bloom1211,0,3936591.story\">one of the more obvious obstacles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For all of his billions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lacks one thing all the current presidential candidates proudly display: a spouse.<\/p>\n<p>The country has not elected a bachelor president since 1884, when Grover Cleveland won the White House despite newspapers huffing that &#8220;a man who will not marry a woman and take care of her has no right to be a president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Singles haven&#8217;t had much luck getting nominated either. The last unwed candidate chosen by a major party was Adlai Stevenson, the divorced Democrat who lost to Republican Dwight Eisenhower twice in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, 65, has a companion of seven years, Diana Taylor, and essentially lives with her. Their arrangement and his star-studded past love life would present him with new political territory to navigate if he runs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our haste, we neglected one of the more obvious obstacles: For all of his billions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lacks one thing all the current presidential candidates proudly display: a spouse. The country has not elected a bachelor president since 1884, when Grover Cleveland won the White House despite newspapers huffing that &#8220;a man who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}