{"id":3134,"date":"2006-07-27T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2006-07-27T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T05:36:11","slug":"elizabeth-edwards-john-argued-we-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Edwards Says John Argued To Count Ohio 2004 Vote: &#8216;We Promised&#8217; He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/WinterPatriot.blogspot.com\">Winter Patriot<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth%20Edwards%20Saving%20Graces.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=8 vspace=4\/><\/p>\n<p>In a sidebar on the book-review &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/643\/story\/463236.html\">Edwards emerges from cancer with grace<\/a>&#8220;, <em>The News &#038; Observer<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Rob Christensen<\/strong> quotes <strong>Elizabeth Edwards<\/strong> describing her husband John&#8217;s side of a conversation with &#8220;unidentified individuals&#8221; &#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">I listened to John in the other room, arguing into a speakerphone that we could not concede until the votes [in Ohio] were counted. &#8220;We promised,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We told these people that if they stood in line and fought for their right to vote, we would fight to have them counted. We promised.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>NB: Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; book, &#8220;Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers&#8221;, is scheduled for publication September 26 by Broadway Books. Christensen reviewed an advance copy of uncorrected galley proofs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Winter Patriot In a sidebar on the book-review &#8220;Edwards emerges from cancer with grace&#8220;, The News &#038; Observer&#8216;s Rob Christensen quotes Elizabeth Edwards describing her husband John&#8217;s side of a conversation with &#8220;unidentified individuals&#8221; &#8230; I listened to John in the other room, arguing into a speakerphone that we could not concede [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}