{"id":2043,"date":"2008-08-31T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2008-08-31T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:57:35","slug":"fun_with_the_fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Fun With The First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The convention hasn&#8217;t even started yet, but the parades are already underway here in downtown Minneapolis. Today&#8217;s post-modern political parade can be a frustrating thing to watch if you&#8217;re expecting a consistent, unified message. It&#8217;s best just to take in the spectacle and not try to make sense of it. To illustrate my point, here&#8217;s a sampling of what I saw at today&#8217;s parade on Nicollet Mall:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A gaggle of vocal Ron Paul supporters who aren&#8217;t ready to let go yet <\/li>\n<li>A bunch of people dressed up in military outfits and Guy Fawlkes masks. Very Comic-Con-ish.<\/li>\n<li>Some environmentalists dressed up as a surprisingly lifelike polar bear <\/li>\n<li>A couple middle-aged women in rooster outfits. This is about when I stopped looking for a message.  <\/li>\n<li>Zombies! I think these guys were my favorite. No political message other than &#8220;Braainns!&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convention hasn&#8217;t even started yet, but the parades are already underway here in downtown Minneapolis. Today&#8217;s post-modern political parade can be a frustrating thing to watch if you&#8217;re expecting a consistent, unified message. It&#8217;s best just to take in the spectacle and not try to make sense of it. To illustrate my point, here&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2043' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-wX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}