{"id":3,"count":2,"description":"Parties and individual vendors have produced and distributed items supporting the campaigns of presidential contenders since the early 19th century. These items have included ribbons, badges, pins, bandannas, posters, pamphlets, stickers and three dimensional items such as statuettes and dishes. The majority of these items are \u201cnational\u201d with no regional flavor. I find items produced for more local use to be more interesting. These are produced by local parties for fundraising, conventions, candidate visits, and events or to tie a local candidate to a popular presidential candidate (coattails). Montana for its size has produced a relatively large number of these items. These have been the focus of my collecting for the last three decades. The items pictured on this site will focus on earlier items which tend to appear less frequently but there are a multitude of items produced in the last three decades. I will only present a few of these that are relatively uncommon.","link":"https:\/\/collectingpoliticalbuttons.com\/?cat=3","name":"Presidential Items","slug":"presidential-items","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectingpoliticalbuttons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectingpoliticalbuttons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectingpoliticalbuttons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectingpoliticalbuttons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}