{"id":3167,"date":"2010-02-06T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:41:10","slug":"in-honor-of-melanie-shouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/06\/in-honor-of-melanie-shouse\/","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Melanie Shouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"In Honor of Melanie Shouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RIPMelanie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the facebook page about Melanie Shouse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Melanie was a tireless activist who fought until losing her battle with  cancer on Jan. 30. <q>She was fighting&#8230;because she understood that there  were others coming behind her.<\/q> President Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong><a title=\"Article in St. Louis Post-Dispath\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/6E4593141816B7B7862576C200173A54?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">article By Michael Sorkin<\/a><\/strong> St. Louis Post-Dispatch clarifies further the significance of Melanie Shouse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday night, President Obama cited her case in promising to continue working for health care legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech, Obama spoke of Shouse&#8217;s death and her obituary in the Post-Dispatch.<\/p>\n<p><q>How can I say to her &#8230; &#8216;We&#8217;re giving up&#8217;?<\/q> Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe the Obama speech to which the article refers is the one in my post <strong><a title=\"Presidential Speech\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/05\/a-conversation-with-the-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation With The President<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the facebook page about Melanie Shouse. Melanie was a tireless activist who fought until losing her battle with cancer on Jan. 30. She was fighting&#8230;because she understood that there were others coming behind her. President Obama The article By Michael Sorkin St. Louis Post-Dispatch clarifies further the significance of Melanie Shouse. [&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-3167","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\/3167","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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}