{"id":1814,"date":"2008-06-12T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:54:58","slug":"tbtm20080612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"TBTM20080612"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SFDhsQzwcNI\/AAAAAAAACFY\/l8NWkhzLDf4\/s1600-h\/TBTM20080612.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SFDhsQzwcNI\/AAAAAAAACFY\/l8NWkhzLDf4\/s400\/TBTM20080612.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/faith-theology.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/dangers-of-obamania-why-barak-obama-is.html\">The dangers of Obamania<\/a>: &#8220;like Reagan before him, Barack Obama is having a narcotic effect on the American psyche, dulling their lived awareness of the Iraq d\u00e9b\u00e2cle and reducing the Bush presidency to a mere aberration. His strident opposition to the war efforts in Iraq coupled with the deliberately pandering message of utopian immediacy\u2014\u2018We are the change we seek\u2019 and \u2018We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for\u2019\u2014are invitations to the American people to enclose themselves once again in their solipsistic cocoon, and to resume their idiotic obsession with the drama of their national life.&#8221;<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dangers of Obamania: &#8220;like Reagan before him, Barack Obama is having a narcotic effect on the American psyche, dulling their lived awareness of the Iraq d\u00e9b\u00e2cle and reducing the Bush presidency to a mere aberration. His strident opposition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1814\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-politics","category-tbtm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-tg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}