{"id":24,"date":"2007-11-19T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/lockesmith\/2007\/11\/19\/they-say-the-neon-lights-are-bright\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:01:28","slug":"they-say-the-neon-lights-are-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/2007\/11\/19\/they-say-the-neon-lights-are-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"They Say the Neon Lights Are Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have not yet heard the news via Belmont&#8217;s main website, the Commission on Presidential Debates has chosen Belmont University to host the Town Hall Presidential Debate on October 7, 2008.<br \/>\nNope, I didn&#8217;t stutter, and that is what you think it is.  We&#8217;re hosting a presidential debate!  I suppose the advantage of a blog in this context is to provide the immediate reaction, rather than calm and reasoned reflection.  And I have to tell you, this news has sent a tremor through campus.  I&#8217;m not sure how we compare to previous sites in terms of campus population, etc., but I have to imagine this represents quite a coup for our administration.  I know it represents one heck of an opportunity for fostering political debate on campus&#8211;among students, not just among candidates.  Actually, probably more the former than the latter; when&#8217;s the last time a debate actually featured debating?<br \/>\nAt any rate, we are all extremely excited, and we can&#8217;t wait to find out how we will be allowed to participate!  Expect to hear more here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have not yet heard the news via Belmont&#8217;s main website, the Commission on Presidential Debates has chosen Belmont University to host the Town Hall Presidential Debate on October 7, 2008. Nope, I didn&#8217;t stutter, and that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/2007\/11\/19\/they-say-the-neon-lights-are-bright\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/lockesmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}