{"id":4250,"date":"2011-03-07T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:16:30","slug":"former-pizza-chain-ceo-mulling-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4250","title":{"rendered":"Former Pizza Chain CEO Mulling Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, IOWA\u00a0 &#8212; Most Americans haven&#8217;t heard of <strong>Herman Cain<\/strong>, the former head of a chain of pizza restaurants who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>But in Iowa, home to the nation&#8217;s first presidential caucuses, <strong>Cain<\/strong> has caught the attention of conservative activists influenced by the tea party movement who aren&#8217;t bothered by candidates who have succeeded in business, but have never held a public office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cain<\/strong>, 65, from suburban Atlanta, has visited Iowa several times recently and will return to Des Moines on Monday for a conservative forum. <strong>Cain<\/strong> likely will express views similar to other speakers, including former House Speaker <strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong>, former Minnesota<strong> Gov. Tim Pawlenty<\/strong> and former Pennsylvania <strong>Sen. Rick Santorum<\/strong>, but he&#8217;ll offer a vastly different resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, IOWA\u00a0 &#8212; Most Americans haven&#8217;t heard of Herman Cain, the former head of a chain of pizza restaurants who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination. But in Iowa, home to the nation&#8217;s first presidential caucuses, Cain has caught the attention of conservative activists influenced by the tea party movement who aren&#8217;t bothered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}