{"id":10284,"date":"2012-03-02T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2012-03-02T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:19:55","slug":"obama-heckled-over-iran-war-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/02\/obama-heckled-over-iran-war-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama heckled over Iran war threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Tucson Citizen<\/em> carried the story <a title=\"Article from Tucson Citizen\" href=\"http:\/\/tucsoncitizen.com\/usa-today-news\/2012\/03\/02\/obama-heckled-over-iran-war-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama heckled over Iran war threat<\/strong><\/a> from USA Today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUse your leadership!,\u201d a woman yelled at Obama. \u201cNo war in Iran!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is not much to the story, but I note it as perhaps the first public protest that has come to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like yelling at public figures at public appearances is the only thing we have left to do to get their attention.\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s defenses against hearing a message are well honed.\u00a0 Maybe he was hoping the deep bass of the rumbling drums of war would be inaudible to most people and he could silence the few people who can see what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of this blog might be able to think of another public figure whose attention I have been trying to grab without any success.\u00a0 It makes you wonder if a person has to go through an operation to disconnect the auditory nerve (if there is such a thing) before they can run for office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tucson Citizen carried the story Obama heckled over Iran war threat from USA Today. \u201cUse your leadership!,\u201d a woman yelled at Obama. \u201cNo war in Iran!\u201d There is not much to the story, but I note it as perhaps the first public protest that has come to my attention. It seems like yelling at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10288,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions\/10288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}