{"id":1456,"date":"2010-02-21T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2010-02-21T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:29:44","slug":"conservative-political-action-conference-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/conservative-political-action-conference-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Political Action Conference Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the heroes of the CPAC attendees: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Enola\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4375913200_f7a57baab3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Bolton Harvests Young Souls:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bolton\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2782\/4375943976_6b2614dfb3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ann Coulter Bodyguard (Tonya Harding wasn&#8217;t hiring this month)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Coulter bodyguard\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4071\/4375919338_ffa42aa53b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"cpac\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4375166283_6c2e4f65d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>&lt;a<\/p>\n<p>Full size photo available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo\/bovard\"><strong>http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard<\/strong><br \/>\n;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the heroes of the CPAC attendees: John Bolton Harvests Young Souls: Ann Coulter Bodyguard (Tonya Harding wasn&#8217;t hiring this month) &lt;a Full size photo available at http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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