{"id":1395,"date":"2008-05-07T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2008-05-07T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:17:06","slug":"coming_to_fruition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/07\/coming_to_fruition\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Fruition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned long ago that, in politics, you don’t count your proverbial chickens until they hatch — which is my roundabout way of saying I’m not writing off Hillary Clinton until I hear from her own lips that she’s quitting — but after yesterday’s Democratic primary results in Indiana and North Carolina, the assumption across the blogosphere seems to be that her campaign is finished. On that note, Evanier makes a very interesting observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nIf all goes as expected, Barack Obama will accept the nomination of the Democratic party at their convention on August 28… 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How cool would that be? Historic and<\/i> poignant… almost cinematic, in fact. I can already see the “dream fulfilled” graphics on the television news coverage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned long ago that, in politics, you don’t count your proverbial chickens until they hatch — which is my roundabout way of saying I’m not writing off Hillary Clinton until I hear from her own lips that she’s quitting — but after yesterday’s Democratic primary results in Indiana and North Carolina, the assumption across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}