{"id":2154,"date":"2004-01-20T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/unplanned-applause\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:16:48","slug":"unplanned-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/unplanned-applause\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplanned Applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I was only able to watch the first few minutes of the State of the Union tonight before customers came in and I had to actually <em>work<\/em> for my paycheck (such a sorry state of affairs, really). I did, however, get one laugh out of what I saw.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to the apparently mandatory applause after every sentence (though whether they&#8217;re applauding what was said, or the fact that he managed to get through one more sentence without stumbling, I&#8217;m not sure about). I was quite pleasantly surprised tonight when after mentioning that the Patriot Act expires in the near future, the Democratic portion of Congress interrupted Bush&#8217;s speech at that point to start applauding.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, but seeing Bush&#8217;s annoyance as he turned toward the applauding people and shook his head (&#8220;No, no, <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> not where you&#8217;re supposed to clap! You missed your cue!&#8221;) was priceless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get to go over the transcript of the speech and hopefully catch an archived webcast after I get home tonight. Until then, though, I&#8217;ll just carry that moment around in my head for the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m used to the apparently mandatory applause after every sentence. I was quite pleasantly surprised tonight when after mentioning that the Patriot Act expires in the near future, the Democratic portion of Congress interrupted Bush&#8217;s speech at that point to start applauding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}