{"id":2757,"date":"2016-04-29T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:45:40","slug":"a-short-lived-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2016\/04\/29\/a-short-lived-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"A short-lived \u201cpresidential run\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, I was earlier in the year included in a poll where people were asked about their views on me serving as President of Iceland and my husband and I moving to Bessasta\u00f0ir - the President's Residency. In the wake of this poll, I received a lot of warm words and wishes of goodwill. I am very thankful for all these warm wishes and to those who saw us as suitable for Bessasta\u00f0ir . Despite this groundswell of support, I announced in no uncertain terms that I was not considering a run for the presidency. See below for news reports on my short-lived \u201cpresidential run\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenews.is\/2016\/02\/16\/majority-supports-a-gay-couple-at-bessastadir-according-to-poll\/#ixzz47EO2gZNI\">Majority supports a gay couple at Bessasta\u00f0ir according to poll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2016\/01\/21\/baldur_og_felix_a_bessastadi\/\">Bald\u00adur og Fel\u00adix \u00e1 Bessasta\u00f0i?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/kanna-landid-fyrir-frambod-baldurs\/article\/2016160129668\">Kanna landi\u00f0 fyrir frambo\u00f0 Baldurs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, I was earlier in the year included in a poll where people were asked about their views on me serving as President of Iceland and my husband and I moving to Bessasta\u00f0ir - the President's Residency. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2016\/04\/29\/a-short-lived-presidential-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}