{"id":30267,"date":"2018-08-14T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30267"},"modified":"2018-08-14T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:41:14","slug":"relaxing-after-a-long-and-difficult-campaign-1-0-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/relaxing-after-a-long-and-difficult-campaign-1-0-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing after a long and difficult Campaign 1.0 season."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting day. Christine Hallquist has been nominated by the Democratic Party in Vermont to run for governor. She is transgender.  In Minnesota&#8217;s primary, Democrats bothering to show up at the polls on Primary day outnumbered Republicans 2:1. Usually it is about even.  That&#8217;s the first draft of the Blue Wave, right? Twitter just closed Alex Jones&#8217; account. And no, <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/when-you-stand-up-for-alex-jones-this-is-what-happens\/\">that is not censorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that we will get to hear Trump say the N-word some time over the next week or two. I don&#8217;t really need to hear that, but there may be those who do.<\/p>\n<p>What happened in your politics today? For those in the handful of states that had primaries today, you&#8217;ve got one night to rest. Tomorrow, all roads lead to November 6th.<\/p>\n<p>And now for your entertainment and inspiration:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kOdIqKsv624\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueMNqdB1QIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0ewtji_NGk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTG5p4wEAAM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JCliHGQy8-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPwJIswbDk0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gepTFXcco4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nwIdIUVFm4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5zyOhZsvIzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting day. Christine Hallquist has been nominated by the Democratic Party in Vermont to run for governor. She is transgender. In Minnesota&#8217;s primary, Democrats bothering to show up at the polls on Primary day outnumbered Republicans 2:1. Usually it is about even. That&#8217;s the first draft of the Blue Wave, right? Twitter just closed Alex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/relaxing-after-a-long-and-difficult-campaign-1-0-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Relaxing after a long and difficult Campaign 1.0 season.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[5506,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/politics_line_drawing_greg_laden_blog.png?fit=546%2C201&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Sb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30269,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267\/revisions\/30269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}