{"id":1117,"date":"2008-11-05T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2008-11-06T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:53:56","slug":"obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/politics\/obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"obama-mccain electoral map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/electoral-map.jpg\" alt=\"obama-mccain electoral map\" width=\"435\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Barack Obama and his campaign on their landslide victory, but even more so to the USA, which has taken a great step forward out of the depths of the past eight miserable years.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s win is being celebrated as a great moment in race relations and a triumph for black people. It is those, surely, which is wonderful and exquisitely moving.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it&#8217;s worth remembering that America did not just select a black (as we strangely call a person with one black parent) president. It also selected a man who distinguished himself as steady, focused, capable, sensible, and eloquent. In a television interview, Obama colleague Valerie Jarrett spoke of his &#8220;core decency.&#8221; None of these are words we have heard in connection with our presidency in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>So good on us.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em>map via <a title=\"538\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">538.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Barack Obama and his campaign on their landslide victory, but even more so to the USA, which has taken a great step forward out of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}