{"id":156881,"date":"2020-08-18T03:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/18\/democratic-convention-kicks-off-with-michelle-obama-and-bernie-sanders-set-to-speak-live\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T03:59:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:59:30","slug":"democratic-convention-kicks-off-with-michelle-obama-and-bernie-sanders-set-to-speak-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156881","title":{"rendered":"Democratic convention kicks off with Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders set to speak \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former first lady to call Joe Biden \u2018profoundly decent man\u2019 in speechAnti-Trump Republicans such as John Kasich also set to speakSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.59am BST Kristin Urquiza, whose father died from coronavirus, addressed the Democratic convention to condemn Trump\u2019s efforts to downplay the threat posed by the virus.Urquiza said her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza, voted for Trump in 2016, and he listened to the president when it came to coronavirus. 2.56am BST It\u2019s Maanvi, chiming in here: One thing that\u2019s a bit odd about this virtual convention so far is that in some ways, we\u2019re compelled to watch a lot of the fluff that may have played in the background \u2014 the campaign videos, the emotional clips of children reciting the national anthem. But there\u2019s also a lot of filler we\u2019re not seeing \u2014 things are moving along at quite a brisk clip, uninterrupted by shots of people walking on and off stage to swelling music, adjusting their mics and shuffling notes. Continue reading…
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Former first lady to call Joe Biden \u2018profoundly decent man\u2019 in speechAnti-Trump Republicans such as John Kasich also set to speakSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.59am BST Kristin Urquiza, whose father died from coronavirus, addressed the Democratic convention to condemn Trump\u2019s efforts to downplay the threat posed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}