{"id":30423,"date":"2024-08-20T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30423"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:48:05","slug":"yes-i-watched-the-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30423","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I watched the convention.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;running a little late today with moving up the grocery run to today and getting three rides in, but I did want to talk about the DNC that I watched a good part of last night&#8230;wow! What energy and enthusiasm from the crowd and the speakers&#8230;not at all what the mainstream media was pushing all afternoon before the convention started&#8230;they were going on and on about the divisions that have plagued the dems for a long time and they even tried to get people to not believe their eyes while they were pushing the division angle&#8230;hey media, now do you why Kamala doesn&#8217;t want to talk to you? It was just one of the most joyous things I have ever seen in politics and it gives me hope that we really can do a miracle and elect dems up and down the ballot&#8230;because we need to&#8230;and the contrast of what our side proposes to move the US forward vs the repubs always looking backwards is so stark that I really can&#8217;t believe anyone would vote for a repub ever again&#8230;but there is lots of stupid here in the US and the repubs depend on it&#8230;but just one thing to remember, when we vote, we win&#8230;so let&#8217;s do that&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;running a little late today with moving up the grocery run to today and getting three rides in, but I did want to talk about the DNC that I watched a good part of last night&#8230;wow! What energy and enthusiasm from the crowd and the speakers&#8230;not at all what the mainstream media was pushing all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, I watched the convention..<\/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":[1422,3087],"class_list":["post-30423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dnc","tag-media-malpractice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30424,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions\/30424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}