{"id":1708,"date":"2008-11-05T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2008-11-05T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:02:25","slug":"delivering-on-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/05\/delivering-on-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering on Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3233\/3005129995_9441f8b735.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There remain many things to be said about the politics that resulted in yesterday&#8217;s massive vote for change.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll get to them.\u00c2\u00a0 But taking everything in is leaving me rather circumspect, at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Further, I&#8217;m very much looking forward to spending less time on politics, and more time on governing.\u00c2\u00a0 We placed an enormous amount of hope on Barack Obama last night, and now it&#8217;s time to make sure he delivers.\u00c2\u00a0 His election was not an end in and of itself.\u00c2\u00a0 It is &#8211; if we <em>all<\/em> do our part &#8211; a means to a better country and a better world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There remain many things to be said about the politics that resulted in yesterday&#8217;s massive vote for change.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll get to them.\u00c2\u00a0 But taking everything in is leaving me rather circumspect, at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Further, I&#8217;m very much looking forward to spending less time on politics, and more time on governing.\u00c2\u00a0 We placed an [&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":[2,6,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-policy","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}