{"id":2137,"date":"2008-12-30T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2008-12-30T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:55:00","slug":"inauguration-raffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/30\/inauguration-raffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration Raffle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, <a href=\"http:\/\/briefingroom.thehill.com\/2008\/12\/30\/obamas-inauguration-committee-holds-ticket-raffle\/\">this made me wonder, too,<\/a> when I got the email today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"greycopy\">The Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC), the group designated to raise money for President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, announced today that it will select ten supporters (and their guests) to receive tickets to Obama&#8217;s swearing in Jan. 20. The catch: supporters have to donate $5.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little ambivalent about it, in that the practical result is 10 more people at the inauguration that probably wouldn&#8217;t have been, otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m uncomfortable with this walking up to the line of what is campaign and what is government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, this made me wonder, too, when I got the email today: The Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC), the group designated to raise money for President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, announced today that it will select ten supporters (and their guests) to receive tickets to Obama&#8217;s swearing in Jan. 20. The catch: supporters have to donate $5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}