{"id":1036,"date":"2004-07-26T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/from_boston\/"},"modified":"2004-07-26T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:10:08","slug":"from_boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/from_boston\/","title":{"rendered":"From Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be covering the Democratic National Convention like all the other cool bloggers.<br \/>\nThe flight in was adventurous to say the least.  All my luggage went to Tampa (fortunately I had the notebook computer with me).  There was nearly a fight between the passengers and 30 Arab men who were loitering at the front of the plane.  I exchanged knowing glances with the 83-year-old granny sitting next to me for two hours.<br \/>\nOnce on the ground, it took me three hours to reach the hotel&#8211;where they had lost my reservations.  So I slept in the park.  I nearly had to fight my way into the free-speech stockade because I lost my admission ticket.  While protesting, I got tired of a reporter from www.demslovebinladen.com asking me questions, so I told him to &#8220;shove it.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhile <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/dncConvention\/view.bg?articleid=37075\">standing in line to use the restroom<\/a> I dropped my extra battery, so blogging will be limited to 20 minutes per day.  But hey, isn&#8217;t it great to blog about all these news stories on convention blogging?<br \/>\nHa.<br \/>\nOkay, so I&#8217;m not really in Boston, and I&#8217;ll be covering the convention from the TV, not the Fleet Center.  But we playing along at home can still have some fun, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/from_boston\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to From Boston\"><p>I&#8217;ll be covering the Democratic National Convention like all the other cool bloggers. The flight in was adventurous to say the least. All my luggage went to Tampa (fortunately I had the notebook computer with me). There was nearly a fight between the passengers and 30 Arab men who were loitering at the front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}