{"id":636,"date":"2004-02-15T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/democrats_change_logo\/"},"modified":"2004-02-15T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T17:27:14","slug":"democrats_change_logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/democrats_change_logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Change Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnedwards2004.com\/\">Edwards Campaign Blog<\/a>:<br \/>\nWashington DC &#8211; 2\/14\/04 &#8211; The DNC in a 3-0 vote decided to change the offical party symbol from &#8220;the Donkey&#8221; to &#8220;the Sheep&#8221;, in honor of John Kerry winning the Democratic nomination. When asked why only three people got to vote on such a change, Terry McAuliffe responded, that &#8220;[he], Hillary Clinton and John Kerry all agreed it would be best, and that was a large enough group of voters to determine what everybody would want.<br \/>\nAn Edwards spokesperson, refusing to attack other Democrats, pointed out that, &#8220;the logo has never changed without approval in at least 5 southern states.&#8221;<br \/>\nDean, however, was more direct in his criticism, which mostly involved him screaming out a list of states he failed to win delegates in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/democrats_change_logo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Democrats Change Logo\"><p>From Edwards Campaign Blog: Washington DC &#8211; 2\/14\/04 &#8211; The DNC in a 3-0 vote decided to change the offical party symbol from &#8220;the Donkey&#8221; to &#8220;the Sheep&#8221;, in honor of John Kerry winning the Democratic nomination. When asked why only three people got to vote on such a change, Terry McAuliffe responded, that &#8220;[he], [&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-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}