{"id":41430,"date":"2016-10-11T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41430"},"modified":"2016-10-11T20:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:29:24","slug":"bill-clinton-in-ft-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/10\/bill-clinton-in-ft-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton in Ft Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41431\" title=\"IMG_2388\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_2388-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_2388-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_2388-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_2388.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Nearly 350 people turned out Tuesday to welcome the nation&#8217;s 42nd president in a room that held 190 according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton held a rally at the Riverside Community Center in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of Clinton&#8217;s visit was to get people registered to vote &#8211; and vote for his wife, Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton called it the most important election of our time, and people at the rally agreed.<\/p>\n<p>A capacity crowd greeted Clinton while many more were forced to stand outside, unable to get into the event.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, supporters of Donald Trump showed up to protest when Clinton supporters stood their ground.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors were escorted to a free speech zone.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton focused on the need to get people registered since the federal court extended voter registration to Wednesday in Florida because of Hurricane Matthew.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton asked during the speech, &#8220;Do you know what the problem is?&#8221; A guy in the audience yelled out, &#8220;Yeah! Bill Clinton is a rapist! &#8220;And was escorted out of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 350 people turned out Tuesday to welcome the nation&#8217;s 42nd president in a room that held 190 according to the fire department. Bill Clinton held a rally at the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41431,"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\/41430"}],"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=41430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}