{"id":9303,"date":"2012-09-01T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2012-09-01T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:29:27","slug":"why-hurricanes-keep-hitting-republican-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9303","title":{"rendered":"Why hurricanes keep hitting Republican conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know why the Republicans chose to hold their National Convention in Florida. It is a swing state with a large number of votes in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>We think we know why the Convention was threatened by a hurricane and had to cancel its first day. It&#8217;s the hurricane season and Florida is frequently in the path of hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the first time that the Republican National Convention has been disrupted by a hurricane and some God-fearing Americans see the intervention of the Almighty. All is explained <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/dispatches\/2012\/08\/28\/the-message-of-hurricane-isaac-decoded\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fdispatches+%28FTB%3A+Dispatches+from+the+Culture+Wars%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know why the Republicans chose to hold their National Convention in Florida. It is a swing state with a large number of votes in the Electoral College. We think we know why the Convention was threatened by a hurricane and had to cancel its first day. It&#8217;s the hurricane season and Florida is frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}