{"id":724,"date":"2022-05-02T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=724"},"modified":"2022-05-02T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:33:12","slug":"what-actually-happens-at-the-u-s-presidential-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/national-party-conventions-democratic-party-republican-party\/what-actually-happens-at-the-u-s-presidential-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Actually Happens at the U.S. Presidential Conventions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/07\/a-laymans-guide-to-the-republican-and-democratic-national-conventions\/489560\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The goal is to keep all those squabbles about the platform and rules\u2014the nuts and bolts of a political party\u2014in the background, and the <strong>spotlight on themselves.<\/strong> Conventions in the modern era are less about the parties than the candidates, and this is their <strong>showcase&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> these eight days in July may be their last, best chance to get millions of anxious, dissatisfied Americans to embrace them, and their visions for the future.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/07\/a-laymans-guide-to-the-republican-and-democratic-national-conventions\/489560\/ &#8220;The goal is to keep all those squabbles about the platform and rules\u2014the nuts and bolts of a political party\u2014in the background, and the spotlight on themselves. Conventions in the modern era are less about the parties than the candidates, and this is their showcase&#8230; these eight days in July may be their last, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-party-conventions-democratic-party-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}