{"id":57979,"date":"2013-08-11T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ted-cruzs-father-obamacare-is-going-to-destroy-the-elderly\/57979\/"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:48:11","slug":"ted-cruzs-father-obamacare-is-going-to-destroy-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ted-cruzs-father-obamacare-is-going-to-destroy-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz\u2019s Father: \u2018Obamacare Is Going to Destroy the Elderly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Falcone<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/08\/ted-cruzs-father-obamacare-is-going-to-destroy-the-elderly\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 11, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the subject of endless 2016 presidential speculation, and if he does decide to run, he\u2019s already learned one important lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all had the opportunity earlier this afternoon to get to know my father. And as you saw, my dad is very soft spoken,\u201d Cruz joked during a speech in Iowa this weekend. \u201cI will confess, I am today violating what has been a cardinal rule, which is never, ever, ever follow my father at the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and his father, Rafael, a Texas pastor, both addressed a gathering of Christian conservatives in Ames, Iowa on Saturday, and the elder Cruz \u2013 speaking without notes \u2013 recounted his imprisonment and torture in Cuba during the 1950\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s and subsequent immigration to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/08\/ted-cruzs-father-obamacare-is-going-to-destroy-the-elderly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Falcone ABC News August 11, 2013 Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the subject of endless 2016 presidential speculation, and if he does decide to run, he\u2019s already learned one important lesson. \u201cYou all had the opportunity earlier this afternoon to get to know my father. And as you saw, my dad is very soft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}