{"id":176176,"date":"2020-08-17T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/17\/so-its-the-democratic-convention\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T23:05:00","slug":"so-its-the-democratic-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/17\/so-its-the-democratic-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"So, It&#8217;s the Democratic Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not planning to watch, because this will be even more scripted and artificial than normal.<\/p>\n<p>If you do want to watch, I will suggest Matt Taibbi&#8217;s, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/the-official-2020-democratic-national\">The Official 2020 Democratic National Convention Drinking Game<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m staying sober, so I&#8217;m not watching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that the coverage will be even more insipid than normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not planning to watch, because this will be even more scripted and artificial than normal. If you do want to watch, I will suggest Matt Taibbi&#8217;s, &#8220;The Official 2020 Democratic National Convention Drinking Game.&#8221; Me, I&#8217;m staying sober, so I&#8217;m not watching. I&#8217;m sure that the coverage will be even more insipid than normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[374,405],"class_list":["post-176176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}