{"id":1043,"date":"2004-07-30T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/what_i_learned_during_the_demo\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T07:30:08","slug":"what_i_learned_during_the_demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/what_i_learned_during_the_demo\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned During the Democratic Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kerry served in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nWe are family.<br \/>\nThis is the most important election of our lifetimes.<br \/>\nOh Captain Kerry, my captain.<br \/>\nWe live in the <i>United States<\/i> of America.<br \/>\nKerry&#8217;s daughters did a better job talking him up than his wife.<br \/>\nPlacard printers make a lot of money during political conventions.  I had expected them for the keynote speakers.  But it seemed like they had them for almost everyone.  Even Al Sharpton.  Not only that, but they had some to go along with the talking points of the speeches.  And those vertically-oriented signs (better for the TV audience?).  The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_07\/004408.php\">Boiler Room<\/a>&#8221; was working overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/what_i_learned_during_the_demo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to What I Learned During the Democratic Convention\"><p>Senator Kerry served in the Vietnam War. We are family. This is the most important election of our lifetimes. Oh Captain Kerry, my captain. We live in the United States of America. Kerry&#8217;s daughters did a better job talking him up than his wife. Placard printers make a lot of money during political conventions. I [&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-1043","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\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}