{"id":41,"date":"2008-11-05T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betsybuchanan.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:08:18","slug":"our-next-president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2008\/11\/05\/our-next-president-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Next President &#8211; Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement that Barack Obama had enough electoral college votes by 10:30 last night so that he was declared the winner was a surprise. I knew the election was going to be very close. I&#8217;m not sure what the final popular numbers were, but it was very close. It must be very strange to step into a new job and know right off that half of the people don&#8217;t like you and don&#8217;t want you. Can you imagine working on that kind of hostile environment? He has a lot of challenges ahead, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement that Barack Obama had enough electoral college votes by 10:30 last night so that he was declared the winner was a surprise. I knew the election was going to be very close. I&#8217;m not sure what the final popular numbers were, but it was very close. It must be very strange to step &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2008\/11\/05\/our-next-president-barack-obama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Next President &#8211; Barack Obama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}