{"id":420,"date":"2004-08-19T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2004-08-19T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T23:17:37","slug":"and-you-thought-he-was-your-president-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"And you thought he was YOUR President too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Blogged by Brad from the road&#8230;)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000364.htm\">Loyalty oaths<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000365.htm\">journalist nationalities profiled<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000415.htm\">T-shirts banned<\/a>, and now a tiny sticker will get you tossed from a Bush\/Cheney rally. Noticing a pattern here yet?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.record-eagle.com\/2004\/aug\/17mead.htm\" target=\"_blank\">From the <i>Traverse City Record-Eagle<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Kathryn Mead wanted to see her first sitting president when George W. Bush visited the city.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Bush campaign staffers tore up the 55-year-old social studies teacher&#8217;s ticket and refused her admission because she sported a small sticker on her blouse that touted the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had my ticket and photo identification, but they would not let me in because of this sticker,&#8221; said Mead, a teacher at Traverse City West Senior High, who said she has seen Queen Elizabeth and Pope John Paul in person.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Remind me again&#8230;what is we&#8217;re supposedly fighting for in Iraq? Why does Bush\/Cheney &#8217;04 hate freedom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Blogged by Brad from the road&#8230;) Loyalty oaths, journalist nationalities profiled, T-shirts banned, and now a tiny sticker will get you tossed from a Bush\/Cheney rally. Noticing a pattern here yet? From the Traverse City Record-Eagle: Kathryn Mead wanted to see her first sitting president when George W. Bush visited the city. Instead, Bush campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}