{"id":293691,"date":"2010-02-08T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76069"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:00:43","slug":"palin-skips-town-fans-forgive-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293691","title":{"rendered":"Palin Skips Town, Fans Forgive Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an extra anecdote from my National Tea Party Convention notebook. As I reported<\/a> (and tweeted) on Saturday night, many people arrived at the Sarah Palin-headlined banquet — which they could attend for $549 as convention ticket-holders or for $349 if they only wanted to attend the banquet — with copies of “Going Rogue” and black pens. But Palin never made herself available for autographs. <\/span>She walked onstage, gave her speech, shook a few hands close to the stage, (to get there, you had to get through a VIP rope line) did her Q&A, and left. Minutes later, convention organizer Judson Phillips made an announcement.<\/p>\n

“The governor is leaving the building,” he said. “She has a tight schedule.”<\/p>\n

I ran into Pat Almont, a retiree from Memphis, who attended the convention with one of the $349 banquet tickets. She’d run to the back of the room clutching a copy of “Going Rogue,” but Almont couldn’t get it signed.<\/p>\n

“I just missed her!” Almont said. “They said she’d just left.”<\/p>\n

I asked Almont and her friend, Jean Britt (another banquet attendee) whether they were disappointed that Palin wouldn’t sign the book.<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, she would,” Britt said. “If you just ran into her in the hall, she’d sign it. She’s very down-to-earth. I’d love to see her as president.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an extra anecdote from my National Tea Party Convention notebook. As I reported (and tweeted) on Saturday night, many people arrived at the Sarah Palin-headlined banquet — which they could attend for $549 as convention ticket-holders or for $349 if they only wanted to attend the banquet — with copies of “Going Rogue” and […]<\/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-293691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293691","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=293691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}