{"id":12511,"date":"2012-08-28T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2012-08-28T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:54:23","slug":"local-coverage-of-the-repunlican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/local-coverage-of-the-repunlican-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Coverage of the<BR> Republican National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/local-coverage-of-the-repunlican-national-convention\/gopconvention2012_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12512\" title=\"gopconvention2012_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gopconvention2012_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Staff members from the <em>Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em> are attending the Republican National Convention today, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In Tampa this week, 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories gather to nominate their party\u2019s choice for the next president of the United States at the 40th Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>The presumed presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, flies to Tampa today to join fellow Republicans seeking to put their shortened convention back on track and prevent his message from being drowned out by a tropical storm churning toward the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Getting down to the first full day of business after Tropical Storm Isaac upended the convention schedule, delegates will formally affirm Romney as the party&#8217;s nominee in an evening capped by prime time speeches by Romney&#8217;s wife, Ann, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Romney, who had originally planned to arrive in Tampa on Thursday to accept his party&#8217;s nomination, decided to fly in on Tuesday to be on hand for his wife&#8217;s appearance on the podium<\/p>\n<p>Check back with the <em>Gazette<\/em> to read reports from the convention floor as Florida\u2019s delegates react to this momentous political event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff members from the Lehigh Acres Gazette are attending the Republican National Convention today, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. In Tampa this week, 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}