{"id":56,"date":"2008-10-12T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-05-26T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:08:46","slug":"obama-rally-in-germantown-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/obama-rally-in-germantown-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Rally in Germantown, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to an Obama rally in Vernon Park here in Germantown, PA. Our friends, Ilene and Robert and Jane and Drew drove to our house and we walked over. We were in a half to three quarter mile long line. (The people who got up front went at 7:00, we went at 10:30.) We were lucky to get into the park before Obama finished speaking but even the line itself was wonderful. So many people of all types\u2014ages, races, shapes and sizes\u2014all smiling and being together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/obama1.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Rally\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/obama2.jpg\" alt=\"Obama rally\" \/><br \/>\nThe line snaked up and down tiny streets in Germantown\u2014some home owners sticking their heads out wondering what was going on and others placing speakers with music outside for the folk in line. It felt like one big party.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafette.com\" target=\"blank\">Cafette<\/a>, a wonderful restaurant in Chestnut Hill for lunch\u2014it was a sparkling sunny day so we ate outside\u2014many people at the caf\u00e9 had their rally &#8220;Germantown for Obama&#8221; stickers on\u2014we bought cookies to take back to Ilene and Robert&#8217;s house and ate on their deck not wanting the beautiful day to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to an Obama rally in Vernon Park here in Germantown, PA. Our friends, Ilene and Robert and Jane and Drew drove to our house and we walked over. We were in a half to three quarter mile long line. (The people who got up front went at 7:00, we went at 10:30.)&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/obama-rally-in-germantown-pa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,58],"tags":[378,64],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germantown","category-friends","tag-germantown","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}