{"id":287366,"date":"2010-02-06T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75962"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:35:45","slug":"waiting-for-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287366","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE — Stan and Mary Hess own the United States Hot Air Balloon Team in St. Peter’s, Pa. All last year, they had a very direct involvement with the Tea Party movement, renting out balloons for American Prosperity’s climate change-skeptical “Hot Air Tour.” But they had never seen Sarah Palin speak — they’d “missed her by a day several times” during the 2008 campaign — so they added a stop to their Florida-bound vacation and paid $650 for tickets to her banquet speech.<\/p>\n

The Hesses were some of the first people in line for Palin’s speech — they got in line at 3:30 local time, and it begins at 8. At 4:30 they were near the front of the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE — Stan and Mary Hess own the United States Hot Air Balloon Team in St. Peter’s, Pa. All last year, they had a very direct involvement with the Tea Party movement, renting out balloons for American Prosperity’s climate change-skeptical “Hot Air Tour.” But they had never seen Sarah Palin speak — they’d “missed her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}