{"id":1272,"date":"2008-09-16T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2008-09-16T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:01:59","slug":"better-know-a-candidate-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/16\/better-know-a-candidate-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Know A Candidate: Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it will shock you to learn that there are, in fact, fervent supporters of political candidates that don&#8217;t really know much about those candidates.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I know that politics is merely a team sport, for some, but it still disappoints me every time I encounter someone who&#8217;s knowledge of a candidate is far outstripped by their enthusiasm.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, none of us know *everything* (including the candidates themselves).\u00c2\u00a0 So, with all that in mind, I&#8217;m going to recommend every Barack Obama supporter take the time to at least scan through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/9\/16\/9641\/62473\/762\/599278\">this incredibly useful and supported summary of his career and positions<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect a number of readers will end up bookmarking and revisiting it a number of times (I&#8217;ve not finished it, myself, as I keep following the links . . .).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it will shock you to learn that there are, in fact, fervent supporters of political candidates that don&#8217;t really know much about those candidates.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I know that politics is merely a team sport, for some, but it still disappoints me every time I encounter someone who&#8217;s knowledge of a candidate is far outstripped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}