{"id":101644,"date":"2016-07-19T03:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101644"},"modified":"2016-07-19T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:55:12","slug":"trumps-amazing-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101644","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Amazing Entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment Donald Trump entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOPConvention?src=hash\">#GOPConvention<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rBRl8OGoqo\">https:\/\/t.co\/rBRl8OGoqo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/th6VcowmfM\">pic.twitter.com\/th6VcowmfM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/755226762649407489\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/07\/18\/winners-and-losers-from-night-one-of-the-republican-national-convention\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fix-winnerslosers-1130pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post lists winners and losers from last night<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Watching Melania Trump speak, it was hard for me to imagine that anyone would leave her address feeling anything but more favorably inclined toward her husband. That&#8217;s a big win for Team Trump. [Update: Or at least, it was a big win for the brief stretch between that genuine convention speech and the moment much of the internet realized they&#8217;d heard a good chunk of that same genuine convention speech before. Eight years before, to be precise.]<\/p>\n<p>* Rudy Giuliani: Sure, the former New York City mayor shouted most of his speech. But I found him to be a very effective advocate for Trump; he talked about Trump&#8217;s anonymous charitable giving, he talked about Trump as a father and a friend. Giuliani&#8217;s broadside against the threat posed by terrorism and the need for Trump&#8217;s strength had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. In what was a generally sleepy night, Giuliani brought it.<\/p>\n<p>* Donald Trump&#8217;s entrance: I have always wished that politics was more like pro wrestling. Increasingly, I am getting my wish. Trump&#8217;s entrance into the Republican convention \u2014 he offered a brief introduction for Melania \u2014 was epic. Backlit. Fog\/smoke machine. &#8220;We are the champions&#8221; blaring through the speakers. It had everything.<\/p>\n<p>* Marcus Luttrell: The former Navy SEAL \u2014 and subject of the book and film &#8220;Lone Survivor&#8221; \u2014 delivered an impassioned and raw appeal to patriotism during the first hour of the nighttime program. It&#8217;s hard to command a room at that hour \u2014 people are shuffling around and just getting settled in for the night \u2014 but Luttrell did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment Donald Trump entered the #GOPConvention https:\/\/t.co\/rBRl8OGoqo pic.twitter.com\/th6VcowmfM &mdash; CNN (@CNN) July 19, 2016 Washington Post lists winners and losers from last night: Watching Melania Trump speak, it was hard for me to imagine that anyone would leave her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101647,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101644\/revisions\/101647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}