{"id":12495,"date":"2016-07-28T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12495"},"modified":"2016-07-28T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:36:01","slug":"the-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12495","title":{"rendered":"The DNC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t watch much of the repub convention last week&#8230;someone would have had to pay me to watch the idiots there spout their hate and nonsense&#8230;I did read about it though to get a pretty good idea what it was about&#8230;fear, fear, some more fear, and then more fear&#8230;.the contrast of that crap to the DNC this week is just so striking I can&#8217;t believe that Trump is almost even with Hillary in the polls&#8230;.and the narrative that the media is trying to push, that the normal, everyday disagreements that pop up between people is dooming the dems to a loss in November has gotten so bad, even from MSNBC, that I reverted to C-span to get rid of the commentary. The meme that Bernie supporters are not going to vote for Hillary is another one that is getting a huge push from every network&#8230;and they are conveniently ignoring the polls that say that over 80% of Bernie&#8217;s supporters are already on board&#8230;.when did the media get so lousy? Oh, well&#8230;at least we have had inspiring speeches from our side&#8230;I mean I was clapping when Joe Biden was on last night&#8230;going to miss him when he is done in January&#8230;.and I am looking forward to Hillary&#8217;s tonight and I laughed at a tweet that I saw today&#8230;that Trump&#8217;s speeches are rated as wonderful if he doesn&#8217;t punch somebody but Hillary&#8217;s have to be better than the Gettysburg address or they are a total failure&#8230;yep, that&#8217;s just about right&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t watch much of the repub convention last week&#8230;someone would have had to pay me to watch the idiots there spout their hate and nonsense&#8230;I did read about it though to get a pretty good idea what it was about&#8230;fear, fear, some more fear, and then more fear&#8230;.the contrast of that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The DNC&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1422,835,1423],"class_list":["post-12495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dnc","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-rnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12496,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}