{"id":30429,"date":"2024-08-21T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30429"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:35:08","slug":"the-convention-has-been-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30429","title":{"rendered":"The convention has been fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;yeah, I know I haven&#8217;t really been too into politics lately since it was all doom and gloom all of the time coming out of the repubs and infighting on our side where they couldn&#8217;t agree on anything&#8230;and Joe read it and knew what he had to do&#8230;and he did it by dropping out of the race and passing the torch to Kamala and look what happened&#8230;look at the convention and the pure joy that is on display even in the roll call which is normally pretty boring&#8230;but not last night&#8230;every delegation tried their best to make it fun and there were smiles on every face while they did&#8230;and the speeches&#8230;yow&#8230;Michelle and Barack Obama brought the house down with their calls to action and they just felt so normal&#8230;not a screed or attack in them&#8230;well&#8230;a little, but they were good natured and truthful and I really did miss them not being around&#8230;.so, I&#8217;ll be back to watch more tonight&#8230;I just wish they would put the speeches on earlier&#8230;this old guy can&#8217;t start a speech after 11&#8230;fun and hope is back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;yeah, I know I haven&#8217;t really been too into politics lately since it was all doom and gloom all of the time coming out of the repubs and infighting on our side where they couldn&#8217;t agree on anything&#8230;and Joe read it and knew what he had to do&#8230;and he did it by dropping out of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The convention has been fun&#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":[1422,4004],"class_list":["post-30429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dnc","tag-obamas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30429","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=30429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30430,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30429\/revisions\/30430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}