{"id":875,"date":"2008-04-19T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:25:24","slug":"im-not-a-member-of-any-organized-political-party-im-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a member of any organized political party, I&#8217;m a Democrat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Will Rogers needed confirmation of his point of view, he need only have looked at the <em>2008 Democratic 18th Senatorial District State Central Convention<\/em>, to which I had the dubious honor of being a delegate.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the convention went fine. I played a sterling role, being firstest with the mostest when it came to making motions to close the nominations, of which I believe I made all but one. The meeting took about 20 minutes, after which pizza and a good time were had by all.<\/p>\n<p>However, getting there was another story. We received not one, not two, but three different notices from State Central about this convention, each with a different date or time. My wife tried to check State Central&#8217;s website at one point. The good news is that the website exists. The bad news is that it is of little use. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose it could have been worse. At least the last notice was the accurate one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Will Rogers needed confirmation of his point of view, he need only have looked at the 2008 Democratic 18th Senatorial District State Central Convention, to which I had the dubious honor of being a delegate. Actually, the convention went fine. I played a sterling role, being firstest with the mostest when it came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-local-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}