{"id":1279,"date":"2012-08-30T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2012-08-30T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:20:19","slug":"accusations-of-racism-at-republican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Accusations of racism at Republican national convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-and-wife-Ann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mitt Romney and wife Ann\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-and-wife-Ann-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitt Romney and wife Ann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tampa &#8211; Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention for throwing nuts at an African-American camera operator for CNN and telling her: \u201cThis is how we feed animals,\u201d the cable network said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened on Tuesday in the Tampa Bay Times Forum where delegates officially nominated Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate to face President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTwo attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated,\u201d CNN quoted the convention as saying in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\" wp-image-1280\" title=\"Mitt Romney and wife Ann\">Multiple witnesses saw the incident and RNC security and police immediately removed the two people from the forum, CNN said. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa &#8211; Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention for throwing nuts at an African-American camera operator for CNN and telling her: \u201cThis is how we feed animals,\u201d the cable network said. The incident happened on Tuesday in the Tampa Bay Times Forum where delegates officially nominated Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accusations of racism at Republican national convention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[954,13,957,157,955,956,953],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-ann-romney","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nuts","tag-racism","tag-republican-convention","tag-tampa","tag-wife"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-and-wife-Ann.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}