{"id":258811,"date":"2016-07-29T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-clinton-caught-napping-during-hillarys-historic-nomination-speech-video\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T22:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:18:18","slug":"bill-clinton-caught-napping-during-hillarys-historic-nomination-speech-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bill-clinton-caught-napping-during-hillarys-historic-nomination-speech-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton caught napping during Hillary\u2019s historic nomination speech (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As his wife Hillary Clinton was busy shattering the glass ceiling of US party politics, former president Bill appeared to get some shut-eye during the final night of the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On a raucous Thursday evening in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept the nomination of a major US party.<\/p>\n<p>Talking up her plans to create a living wage and get tough with Wall Street, Clinton took frequent digs at Republican rival Donald Trump, much to the delight of the cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can\u2019t refinance theirs,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZEbs4dYIPU\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But all the excitement appeared to have taken a toll on husband Bill, who was seated in the audience next to Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.<\/p>\n<p>As the topic turned to tackling Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL), the former US president seemed to nod off \u2013 perhaps already dreaming of a return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The apparently exhausted former commander-in-chief also appeared nonplussed about an awkward Kaine fidgeting next to him, who at one point seemed to be trying to block the convention cameras\u2019 view of the napping ex-president.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yPbUhcvDgCo\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But not even a slight faux pas by her husband could spoil Hillary\u2019s big moment.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users have zeroed in on Clinton\u2019s gleeful reaction to the celebratory balloons, with some expecting further fireworks as her presidential face-off with Donald Trump kicks off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/353889-bill-clinton-sleeping-convention\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As his wife Hillary Clinton was busy shattering the glass ceiling of US party politics, former president Bill appeared to get some shut-eye during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. On a raucous Thursday evening in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept the nomination of a major US party. Talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-258811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}