{"id":403,"date":"2008-04-15T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/ron-paul-supporters-rally-at-capitol\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:09:10","slug":"ron-paul-supporters-rally-at-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/ron-paul-supporters-rally-at-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Supporters Rally at Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple hundred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\"><strong>Ron Paul <\/strong><\/a>supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers @organized by the Granny Warriors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I stopped by mid afternoon.\u00a0 I was told by one attendee that \u201cRon Paul came\u00a0 by and spoke around 11:15. Unfortunately, the sound system was\u00a0 not yet working\u00a0 at that point.\u201d\u00a0 He said he had heard Congressman Paul might return and speak again later today.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics.\u00a0 Full size versions are available at my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/?saved=1\">Flickr page here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/2417392868_381a585e15.jpg\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3053\/2417392916_fdd88cd259.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2319\/2417392890_265f2f74b5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2277\/2417392928_5c47790467.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple hundred Ron Paul supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers @organized by the Granny Warriors.\u00a0 I stopped by mid afternoon.\u00a0 I was told by one attendee that \u201cRon Paul came\u00a0 by and spoke around 11:15. Unfortunately, the sound system was\u00a0 not yet working\u00a0 at that point.\u201d\u00a0 He said he [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,37,668],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bovard","tag-ron-paul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ron Paul Supporters Rally at Capitol  - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/ron-paul-supporters-rally-at-capitol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ron Paul Supporters Rally at Capitol  - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A couple hundred Ron Paul supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers @organized by the Granny Warriors.\u00a0 I stopped by mid afternoon.\u00a0 I was told by one attendee that \u201cRon Paul came\u00a0 by and spoke around 11:15. 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