{"id":3176,"date":"2009-06-04T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2009-06-04T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:55:47","slug":"think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/04\/think\/","title":{"rendered":"thinkin&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I read with amazement some of the comments about Obama&#8217;s speech &#8211; comments that he didn&#8217;t offer enough &quot;concrete plans&quot; or that he wasn&#8217;t &quot;strong enough&quot; on some point or another. Those comments miss the mark. We&#8217;ve heard &quot;concrete plans&quot; and &quot;strength without equal&quot; for years, and nothing changed. He spoke to the human and religious values in the best of us all. He spoke to the &#8220;isms&#8221; that are in the way &#8211; here and elsewhere. Until that level of dialog is reached, anything else is simply a waste of time and words. Right now, his job is to point where we need to go and what&#8217;s in the way. Getting there is down the road. We&#8217;ve been on this road before&#8230;<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"340\" height=\"284\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0ZWdDI_fkns&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0ZWdDI_fkns&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"284\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with amazement some of the comments about Obama&#8217;s speech &#8211; comments that he didn&#8217;t offer enough &quot;concrete plans&quot; or that he wasn&#8217;t &quot;strong enough&quot; on some point or another. Those comments miss the mark. We&#8217;ve heard &quot;concrete plans&quot; and &quot;strength without equal&quot; for years, and nothing changed. He spoke to the human and [&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-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}