{"id":107,"date":"2008-06-12T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-06-12T20:43:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:43:44","slug":"obama-the-university-of-chicago-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/06\/12\/obama-the-university-of-chicago-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: The University of Chicago Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"The New Republic article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/open_university\/archive\/2008\/06\/12\/obama-the-university-of-chicago-democrat.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to an article on <em>The New Republic<\/em> web site that describes some important qualities of  Barack Obama in the words of a university colleague of his.<\/p>\n<p>These are exactly the qualities that I thought I detected from listening to him speak and from reading what he has written.  It is nice to know that these are the qualities he has demonstrated during his tenure at<span class=\"articleText\"> the University of Chicago Law School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Usually when I have done a job interview and get a reference like this that corroborates what I saw in an interview, I have been quite happy with the people I have hired.  As in any hiring decision, there is no guarantee.  However, I have found that the odds are with me when I can get a reference like this.<\/p>\n<p>Credit goes to lurker RichardH for bringing this article to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to an article on The New Republic web site that describes some important qualities of Barack Obama in the words of a university colleague of his. These are exactly the qualities that I thought I detected from listening to him speak and from reading what he has written. It is nice to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-politics","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}