{"id":34,"date":"2024-11-11T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/a-brits-take-on-election-day-americans-are-on-another-level\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:08:14","slug":"a-brits-take-on-election-day-americans-are-on-another-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/a-brits-take-on-election-day-americans-are-on-another-level\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brit\u2019s take on Election Day? Americans are on another level."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Us British think our politics can be a bit mad at times. But we have nothing on the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m from London and spent election night in D.C. as a political tourist chatting to the people I found as the results came in. It was an eye-opening experience.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump and Kamala Harris superfans who traveled across the nation to be in D.C. for election night? The sweating watch parties with political-themed cocktails and characters? The boarding up of businesses to protect against damage amid fears of violent disorder?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we had Brexit, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss vs. the lettuce back in London. But you guys are on a whole other level to us.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict from a Brit? You guys are wild. Watch the video by my colleague Krystal Campos to see how I spent Election Night in D.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Us British think our politics can be a bit mad at times. But we have nothing on the Americans. I&#8217;m from London and spent election night in D.C. as a political tourist chatting to the people I found as the results came in. It was an eye-opening experience. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris superfans who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}