{"id":207,"date":"2008-08-23T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-08-23T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T21:05:48","slug":"political-convention-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/political-convention-venues\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Convention Venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Democrats are upholding their long tradition of restrained good taste:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/2789877017\/\" title=\"DNCC Podium by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3088\/2789877017_6835347fba_o.png\" width=\"502\" height=\"376\" alt=\"DNCC Podium\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s the lighted stairs that really make this. (Original slideshow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demconvention.com\/pepsi-center-podium-unveiled\/\">here<\/a>; requires Flash.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Republicans apparently never saw the last reel of <cite>Attack of the Clones<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopconvention2008.com\/about\/podium.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gopconvention2008.com\/images\/podiumsmall.jpg\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I know this is just an artist&#8217;s rendering, but it looks like something from <cite>Triumph of the Will<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/22\/what-happened-to-good-old-red-white-blue\/\">Hot Air<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Democrats are upholding their long tradition of restrained good taste: For me, it&#8217;s the lighted stairs that really make this. (Original slideshow here; requires Flash.) Meanwhile, the Republicans apparently never saw the last reel of Attack of the Clones: I know this is just an artist&#8217;s rendering, but it looks like something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-3l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}