{"id":2278,"date":"2012-09-04T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2012-09-04T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T08:31:00","slug":"gran-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Gran Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2279\" title=\"RNCeastwoodchair\">The Republicans saved the biggest surprise for the last night and they did not disappoint. Legendary Oscar winning actor, Clint Eastwood, took center stage and gave an empty chair the thrashing of a life time. Actually, in true theatrical fashion, the empty chair was supposed to represent President Barack Obama and Mr. Eastwood, at least in his mind, represented all his rugged heroes he played in his westerns and police dramas rolled into one. Mr. Eastwood then went on to ramble incessantly for twelve excruciating minutes\u00a0 In the end, Mr. Eastwood proved to be more the angry old man from <em>Gran Torino <\/em>than Dirty Harry. Here&#8217;s one of his more memorable moments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2279\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2279\" title=\"RNCeastwoodchair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNCeastwoodchair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNCeastwoodchair.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNCeastwoodchair-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Clint Eastwood had some memorable senior moments while giving his speech at the Republican National Convention.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans saved the biggest surprise for the last night and they did not disappoint. Legendary Oscar winning actor, Clint Eastwood, took center stage and gave an empty chair the thrashing of a life time. Actually, in true theatrical fashion, the empty chair was supposed to represent President Barack Obama and Mr. Eastwood, at least &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gran Finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,60,8,3],"tags":[234,22,646,665,147,9,21,98,596,19,645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}