{"id":2160,"date":"2007-02-11T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/what_color_is_b\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T16:57:27","slug":"what_color_is_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/what_color_is_b\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color Is Barack Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to view him as black.  Then I saw this:<br \/>\n<embed FlashVars='config=http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/xml\/data_synd.jhtml?vid=81955%26myspace=false' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/syndicated_player\/index.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#006699' width='340' height='325' name='comedy_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><br \/>\nToday, I learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/02\/11\/obama-slavery\/\">expert historical analysis at Fox News<\/a> that had Obama been an antebellum politician, he would not have supported the abolition of slavery.<br \/>\nMy head is starting to hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/what_color_is_b\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to What Color Is Barack Obama?\"><p>I used to view him as black. Then I saw this: Today, I learned from expert historical analysis at Fox News that had Obama been an antebellum politician, he would not have supported the abolition of slavery. My head is starting to hurt.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}