{"id":710741,"date":"2010-04-06T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75484"},"modified":"2010-04-06T23:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:41:37","slug":"and-speaking-of-tea-party-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710741","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of Tea Party activists&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        they will soon have something in common with gay rights activists, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Brazilians and people of Italian descent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Each of those groups has had the honor of having their flag fly over the state Capitol and on Friday, the Tea Party movement joins the ranks.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Gadsden Flag &#8212; it&#8217;s bright yellow with a coiled snake and the words &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread On Me&#8221; &#8212; will be hoisted from a Capitol flag poll at 9 a.m. According to a press release issued by Connecticut Tea Party Patriots, it will stay there until April 15. (Hmmmm&#8230;coincidence?)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Tea Party Patriots will host a flag-raising ceremony on the south lawn of the Capitol, followed by a press conference, when several tea party activists will announce their intention to seek elective office.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/images.jpeg?resize=143%2C95\" width=\"143\" height=\"95\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they will soon have something in common with gay rights activists, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Brazilians and people of Italian descent.&nbsp; Each of those groups has had the honor of having their flag fly over the state Capitol and on Friday, the Tea Party movement joins the ranks.&nbsp; The Gadsden Flag &#8212; it&#8217;s bright yellow with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"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-710741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YTz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710741","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}