{"id":9,"date":"2004-07-29T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2004\/07\/29\/dnc-convention-comes-to-town\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T17:57:22","slug":"dnc-convention-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2004\/07\/29\/dnc-convention-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Convention comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a11\"><\/a>as-salaamu `alaikum<\/p>\n<p>Like pretty much everyone else in the city of Boston (or at least Cambridge), I&#8217;ve spent the last week talking about the Democratic National Convention.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m against talking about my political views on this site, I&#8217;m just going to stick to the more interesting stuff &#8212; all the madness surrounding the convention.<\/p>\n<p>First, so many\u00a0of my friends and acquaintances\u00a0who work in\u00a0downtown\u00a0Boston have mentioned how they considered leaving town for the convention.\u00a0 Employers have encouraged their employees to work in other offices or at home, apparently.\u00a0 But all this running makes no sense to me &#8211; Boston looks great.<\/p>\n<p>For this one splendid week, construction in this city has slowed or even come to a complete halt.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve really appreciated reading positive articles in the <em>Globe<\/em>\u00a0about last-minute labor contract deals struck by the Mayor, and about Boston&#8217;s eagerness to host the conference.<\/p>\n<p>A big change has been in the subways.\u00a0 The just look cleaner.\u00a0 And finally the MBTA decided to post helpful new signs\u00a0in each subway station to maneuver the area.\u00a0 The airport has signs welcoming everyone to the city, and Yahoo! had a booth were you could search the internet for free.\u00a0 (I checked e-mail, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand why anyone would want to leave the city during this exciting time.\u00a0 I wish I were involved in the convention simply to be a good host and have a great time showing off the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as-salaamu `alaikum Like pretty much everyone else in the city of Boston (or at least Cambridge), I&#8217;ve spent the last week talking about the Democratic National Convention.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m against talking about my political views on this site, I&#8217;m just going to stick to the more interesting stuff &#8212; all the madness surrounding the convention. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}