{"id":15468,"date":"2013-12-10T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15468"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:32:25","slug":"obama-shakes-hands-with-cubas-raul-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/10\/obama-shakes-hands-with-cubas-raul-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama shakes hands with Cuba&#8217;s Raul Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>USA Today<\/em> has the story and video <a title=\"USA Today article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2013\/12\/10\/obama-raul-castro-handshake-nelson-mandela-funeral\/3949243\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama shakes hands with Cuba&#8217;s Raul Castro<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75%\" alt=\"picture of hand shake\" src=\"http:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Slideshows\/_production\/gss-131210-mandela-tuesday\/131210-obama-castro-hmed-650a.photoblog600.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Can you see the news stories spun around the &#8220;the brief moment captured in this photograph&#8221;?  Imagine the Faux News headline &#8220;Obama bows to Castro&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I don&#8217;t know what a guy over 6 feet tall is supposed to do when confronting a guy just over 5 feet tall when he wants to look him in the eye.  You can bet that some people will see this as bowing.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought I would take this opportunity to mention this before the media put there spin on it, but I am sure I am too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has the story and video Obama shakes hands with Cuba&#8217;s Raul Castro. Can you see the news stories spun around the &#8220;the brief moment captured in this photograph&#8221;? Imagine the Faux News headline &#8220;Obama bows to Castro&#8221;. Of course, I don&#8217;t know what a guy over 6 feet tall is supposed to do [&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-15468","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\/15468","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=15468"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15476,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions\/15476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}