{"id":9588,"date":"2019-01-19T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2019-01-19T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:42:13","slug":"potential-sotu-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Potential SOTU venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  The states of Michigan and North Carolina, where the GOP attempted to neuter the governor&#8217;s office as soon as a Democrat was elected, have offered the First Felon their capitals as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/michigan-north-carolina-invite-trump-to-give-state-of-the-union-from-their-capitols\/\" target=\"_blank\">venues for delivering the State of the Union<\/a> address.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The GOP House Speakers of two states have invited President Donald Trump to give his State of the Union from their respective state capitols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the unavailability of the United States House of Representatives for your State of the Union address, I would like to extend to you an official invite to deliver your address in the House chamber in the Michigan State Capitol,\u201d Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield said in a letter also posted to Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As longtime readers know, I am now a resident of North Carolina, was reared in Detroit, and educated in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula, at Michigan Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Though I avoid having anything to do with Detroit, as much as possible, I made reservations at a favorite Upper Peninsula motel just a few hours ago for the Fourth of July.  If you&#8217;ve never been to the U.P., you&#8217;ve missed one of America&#8217;s loveliest, most friendly places. <\/p>\n<p>My advice: Stay out of North Carolina if you can, because the natives are <i>mad<\/i> &#8212;  as in angry, and unhinged &#8212; and stay out of Michigan&#8217;s industrial southeast, because it appears they&#8217;re losing their grip, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know? The states of Michigan and North Carolina, where the GOP attempted to neuter the governor&#8217;s office as soon as a Democrat was elected, have offered the First Felon their capitals as venues for delivering the State &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}