{"id":103868,"date":"2020-08-18T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103868"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T22:24:38","slug":"democratic-convention-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103868","title":{"rendered":"Democratic convention a bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News asks the question, &#8220;Is it really a\u00a0convention if nobody convenes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee, host to this year&#8217;s quadrennial Democratic National Convention to select their candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, is a ghost town. Normally the event brings in tens of thousands of convention goers, media, political hacks, lobbyists, and protesters (and obligatory <em>counter\u00a0<\/em>protesters against the protesters protests).<\/p>\n<p>Hotels are way under filled, and the police and Secret Service deployed there appear to be guarding nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Their headline sums it up the best; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/just-kind-sucks-disappointed-milwaukee-ghost-town-democratic-convention-n1236967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Just kind of sucks&#8217;: Disappointed Milwaukee a political ghost town for the Democratic convention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News asks the question, &#8220;Is it really a\u00a0convention if nobody convenes?&#8221; Milwaukee, host to this &hellip; <a title=\"Democratic convention a bust\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103868\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democratic convention a bust<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103869,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103868\/revisions\/103869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}