{"id":7356,"date":"2018-01-19T13:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2018-01-19T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:49:38","slug":"a-star-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7356","title":{"rendered":"A star is born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day when a federal shutdown looms and The Donald is eager to get out of Washington to the comforts of Mar-a-Lago in order to celebrate the first anniversary of his inauguration, it would not be a bad idea to watch Barack Obama&#8217;s keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, the &#8220;star is born&#8221; speech that made him a household name.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eWynt87PaJ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seriously: If you can&#8217;t see who is the better man, or sense the squalor that is the modern GOP, there is something wrong with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day when a federal shutdown looms and The Donald is eager to get out of Washington to the comforts of Mar-a-Lago in order to celebrate the first anniversary of his inauguration, it would not be a bad idea &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}