{"id":34790,"date":"2015-02-01T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34790"},"modified":"2015-02-01T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T20:32:10","slug":"mike-huckabee-visits-swfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/mike-huckabee-visits-swfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee Visits SWFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34791\" title=\"Mike H\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mike-H-300x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mike-H-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mike-H.png 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Former Republican presidential candidate and talk show host Mike Huckabee made a stop in Southwest Florida on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee was at the Books-A-Million promoting his new book \u2018God, Guns, Grits and Gravy.\u2019 When asked about a potential run for the White House in 2016, Huckabee would not say yes. However, the former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist minister said he did not quit his job at the Fox News Channel so he could free up his Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He also talked about Mitt Romney bowing out as a potential candidate for President in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would have been an extremely formidable candidate, but what I\u2019m hoping now that he\u2019s dropped out is that all the others will drop out as well and leave me standing alone. If that happens then gosh, that will be terrific, so that\u2019s my advice to all the others,\u201d Huckabee said.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee\u2019s visit came one day after former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his decision not to run for the oval office next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican presidential candidate and talk show host Mike Huckabee made a stop in Southwest Florida on Saturday. Huckabee was at the Books-A-Million promoting his new book \u2018God, Guns, Grits&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}