{"id":372,"date":"2007-12-16T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/ron-paul-tea-party-day\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T19:28:10","slug":"ron-paul-tea-party-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/ron-paul-tea-party-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Tea Party Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party.\u00a0 Grassroots supporters of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\">Ron Paul<\/a><\/strong> are conducting a nationwide pledge\u00a0campaign today for <strong>Tea Party 07<\/strong>.\u00a0 The details &#8211; and some lively political art &#8211; are at this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaparty07.com\/\">website<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul continues to be practically the only ray of sunlight on the national political horizon.\u00a0 The further he goes in the presidential campaign, the greater the peril to Leviathan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party.\u00a0 Grassroots supporters of Ron Paul are conducting a nationwide pledge\u00a0campaign today for Tea Party 07.\u00a0 The details &#8211; and some lively political art &#8211; are at this website.\u00a0 Ron Paul continues to be practically the only ray of sunlight on the national political horizon.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ron Paul Tea Party Day! 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