NASHVILLE — The 1,100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served is steak and lobster, and from the view in the media risers there are few vegetarian substitutions.<\/p>\n
“We put a lot of thought into the dinner, so it would be a tragedy if you did not eat it,” said Judson Phillips. “One warning: It is hazardous to your waistline.”<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n It’s never been clear whether Palin will stick around after the speech, but many attendees have grabbed copies of “Going Rogue” in the hope of getting it signed — at one table, copies of the book are sitting vertically, bookmarked by black pens. The convention schedule had a glossy photo of Palin on the inside cover, and copies of that schedule are sitting around, with the picture folded to the front.<\/p>\n The dinner’s opening prayer started with a plea for God to help America and ended with a prayer for “wisdom” for Palin, a “modern Deborah.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASHVILLE — The 1,100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served is steak and lobster, and from the view in the media risers there are few vegetarian substitutions. “We put a lot of thought into the dinner, so it would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KU3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}