{"id":2596,"date":"2016-04-13T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/paul-ryan-says-he-doesnt-want-to-be-president-cue-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:45:26","slug":"paul-ryan-says-he-doesnt-want-to-be-president-cue-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/paul-ryan-says-he-doesnt-want-to-be-president-cue-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan says he doesn&#039;t want to be president. Cue conspiracy theories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dc5c1eb0a2d04e22bac2420cac8749a3\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzEyL2ZkL2RjNWMxZWIwYTJkLjc5YjI0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/0422afa5\/09c\/dc5c1eb0a2d04e22bac2420cac8749a3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Paul+Ryan+says+he+doesn%27t+want+to+be+president.+Cue+conspiracy+theories.&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F12%2Fpaul-ryan-presidential-candidate%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F12%2Fpaul-ryan-presidential-candidate%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced Tuesday that he&#8217;s not interested in running for president in 2016. Nope, not at all, why, do you think he could win?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, Ryan, whose eyes still plead &#8220;Adore me,&#8221; said out loud: &#8220;I do not want, nor should I accept, the nomination for our party&#8230; I should not be considered. Period. End of story.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/29\/trump-wisconsin-rally\/\">Donald Trump picks on Paul Ryan, defends campaign manager in Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ryan made his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-a-sherman-pledge.htm\">Sherman pledge<\/a> as the GOP continues barreling towards a chaotic convention this July in Cleveland in which it&#8217;s looking more and more likely that the party&#8217;s nomination <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/14\/what-is-a-brokered-convention\/\">will be a contested affair<\/a> between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, opening the door for a dark horse candidate like Paul Ryan. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/12\/paul-ryan-presidential-candidate\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/paul-ryan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Paul Ryan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gop\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/election-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Election 2016<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460518329' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460518329'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/op-F8kQz-8s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced Tuesday that he&#8217;s not interested in running for president in 2016. Nope, not at all, why, do you think he could win?\u00a0 Speaking to the press, Ryan, whose eyes still plead &#8220;Adore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/paul-ryan-says-he-doesnt-want-to-be-president-cue-conspiracy-theories\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[835,1796,1795,1112],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-election-2016","tag-gop","tag-paul-ryan","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}