{"id":7541,"date":"2016-07-21T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2016-07-21T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:22:09","slug":"ripon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/ripon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7741\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ripon1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ripon1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ripon1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 16, 2015:<\/strong> &#8220;In this school house on March 20, 1854, was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitively and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name of Republican.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1854, a group of Wisconsinites met in a one-room schoolhouse in Ripon to take a stand against slavery. They determined that a new political party was the best way to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>This week, one hundred and fifty years after fielding its first candidate for president, a party whose call for the nation was once &#8220;Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men&#8221; was taken over by someone whose belief system is closest to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-minutiae.com\/resources\/rulesofacquisition.html\">Ferengi Rules of Acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/iowa\/deez-nuts-does-not-know-what-happened-to-america\/article_782b15c7-3f68-5fc5-9fe3-85c7aba80e89.html\">Deez Nuts isn&#8217;t running anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 2015: &#8220;In this school house on March 20, 1854, was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitively and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name of Republican.&#8221; In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/ripon\/\">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":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7541"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}