{"id":12759,"date":"2009-04-15T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2009-04-15T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:19:00","slug":"tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SeZgm9LQ5vI\/AAAAAAAACa8\/PYBf7_AnCMs\/s1600-h\/large_US%2520Tax%2520Day%2520Protests_001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325049831785293554\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 224px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SeZgm9LQ5vI\/AAAAAAAACa8\/PYBf7_AnCMs\/s320\/large_US%2520Tax%2520Day%2520Protests_001.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <em>&#8220;What&#8217;s most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven&#8217;t ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today &#8220;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">&#8211; Glenn Harlan Reynolds today in the Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Today, I took the kids to one of the thousands of tea parties being held to protest the government&#8217;s extreme overspending. It was a great experience. The crowd of 5,000 was surprisingly diverse: Republicans, Democrats, white, black, Latin, Asian, upper, middle, and lower class. It was refreshing to see so many Americans standing up. The spirit of the 1773 Boston Tea Party was definitely captured. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">There is still time to attend one in your area. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/taxdayteaparty.com\/\">here<\/a> to find Tea Parties near you!<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SeZdpIX9ctI\/AAAAAAAACas\/_86kQZYt_Kg\/s1600-h\/headnew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325046570616189650\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 158px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SeZdpIX9ctI\/AAAAAAAACas\/_86kQZYt_Kg\/s320\/headnew.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven&#8217;t ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today &#8220; &#8211; Glenn Harlan Reynolds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}