{"id":120922,"date":"2018-03-09T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120922"},"modified":"2018-03-09T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:33:32","slug":"one-connected-jews-whirlwind-tour-of-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120922","title":{"rendered":"One Connected Jew&#8217;s Whirlwind Tour Of DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/a-conservative-parkland-students-whirlwind-trip-to-dc-ended-in-the-oval-office\/2018\/03\/09\/8449c7da-221f-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.3ad93bd4a045\">Dan Zak writes for the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A conservative Parkland student\u2019s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office<\/p>\n<p>Kyle\u2019s parents immigrated from Israel in the 1990s. He grew up in leafy, placid Parkland, and aspires to get an MBA and a job on Wall Street. The 2016 election was the first he paid attention to. He liked what Donald Trump had to say about immigration, the wall, the idea of \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, Kyle joined Twitter, where he fought for the middle ground. His second-ever tweet was a thank you to Hillary Clinton for defending Parkland students against smears.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, a 19-year-old \u201cinfluencer marketer\u201d named Michael Gruen saw Kyle on Twitter and \u2014 with encouragement from conservative editor and columnist Ben Shapiro \u2014 reached out to him last month, knowing that he\u2019d need support to amplify his voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Zak writes for the Washington Post: A conservative Parkland student\u2019s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office Kyle\u2019s parents immigrated from Israel in the 1990s. He grew up in leafy, placid Parkland, and aspires to get an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120922\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120922","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=120922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120923,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120922\/revisions\/120923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}