{"id":2374,"date":"2008-09-10T23:35:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T04:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2008-09-10T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T04:56:51","slug":"late-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/late-night\/","title":{"rendered":"late night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/11\/on-letterman-obama-discusses-palin-phenomenon\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"240\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2008\/09\/10\/us\/politics\/11obama_337.jpg\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Right now, Obama&#8217;s on Dave Letterman. He&#8217;s absolutely terrific. Watching it, it&#8217;s hard to imagine people voting for anyone else. This is the kind of setting where Obama sparkles &#8211; an open conversation with someone who wants to talk about the actual issues of the Presidency and the country&#8217;s future direction. The lipstick on a pig thing got a few laughs, then they moved on without Obama accusing anyone of anything. The word that comes to mind is &quot;refreshing.&quot; It&#8217;s refreshing to hear him have an opportunity to discuss what the President&#8217;s race is about instead of responding to the &quot;dirty trick&quot; du jour&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Right now, Obama&#8217;s on Dave Letterman. He&#8217;s absolutely terrific. Watching it, it&#8217;s hard to imagine people voting for anyone else. This is the kind of setting where Obama sparkles &#8211; an open conversation with someone who wants to talk about the actual issues of the Presidency and the country&#8217;s future direction. The lipstick on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}