{"id":554,"date":"2004-08-17T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2004-08-17T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T15:57:02","slug":"tale-of-two-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Tale of Two Towns."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image553\" alt=\"bushcrowd.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/bushcrowd1.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image552\" alt=\"kerrycrowd.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/kerrycrowd.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are two images taken from the same day in Portland, Oregon. There        have been many comments on how the candidates paths will continue to cross        as the election nears but these pictures seemed to tell a story. The president        spoke to a group of about 2,300 supporters at a &#8216;town-hall&#8217; meeting while Sen. Kerry        spoke at a rally to between 40,000 and 50,000 people. Now you must take        into account that not everyone is allowed into the president&#8217;s events (such        as those who will not sign a <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/opinion\/columnists\/mistick\/s_208025.html\">loyalty        oath<\/a>) and the fact that Portland is seen as a very liberal city but        you must wonder&#8230;50,000 people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are two images taken from the same day in Portland, Oregon. There have been many comments on how the candidates paths will continue to cross as the election nears but these pictures seemed to tell a story. The president spoke to a group of about 2,300 supporters at a &#8216;town-hall&#8217; meeting while Sen. Kerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-8W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}