{"id":1263,"date":"2009-01-20T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:03:58","slug":"congratulations-obama-america-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Obama, America, World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Martin Luther King walked so that Barack Obama could run,&#8221; said one boy. &#8220;Barack Obama ran,&#8221; said another, &#8220;so that all children could fly.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/01\/WeeklyReview2009-01-20\">Harper&#8217;s Weekly Review, 20 Jan 2007<\/a> (quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/postpomonuyorican.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/hip-hop-and-obama-making-history.html\">Jeezy<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/obama_flag.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today, we hold heads high, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmcd9\/2300624038\/\">jump for joy<\/a>, savor this historic, hopeful moment.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, noses to the grind. Support <em>and<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantstopwontstop.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/notes-on-eve-of-day-one.cfm\">criticize<\/a>. We have our work cut out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Martin Luther King walked so that Barack Obama could run,&#8221; said one boy. &#8220;Barack Obama ran,&#8221; said another, &#8220;so that all children could fly.&#8221; &#8212; Harper&#8217;s Weekly Review, 20 Jan 2007 (quoting Jeezy!) Today, we hold heads high, jump for joy, savor this historic, hopeful moment. Tomorrow, noses to the grind. Support and criticize. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,403,409],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americana","tag-lifey","tag-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}