{"id":3933,"date":"2010-05-08T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:40:55","slug":"the-bridge-the-life-and-rise-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-bridge-the-life-and-rise-of-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Interview of David Remnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Program\/11448\/The+Bridge+The+Life+and+Rise+of+Barack+Obama.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a broadcast I just watched on booktv.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about the life and political career of President Obama with NPR&#8217;s Michele Norris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussion is about the book <a title=\"Amazon.com page on the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bridge-Life-Rise-Barack-Obama\/dp\/1400043603\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Bridge:  The Life and Rise of Barack Obama<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nI watched a significant portion of the show, but did not catch it from the beginning.\u00a0 The book sounds like one I want to read as soon as I can.\u00a0 The author seems to be very thoughtful. I am now going back to view the part of the show that I missed.<\/p>\n<p>I found a review of the book and interview <a title=\"Review of the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/04\/10\/david-remnicks-obama-biography-a-bit-much-and-bit-too-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Remnick&#8217;s Obama Biography: A Bit Much, a Bit Too Soon<\/strong><\/a>. Maybe I skimmed this review too fast.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find anything in the review that matched the negativity of the\u00a0 headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to a broadcast I just watched on booktv. New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about the life and political career of President Obama with NPR&#8217;s Michele Norris. The discussion is about the book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama I watched a significant portion of the show, but did [&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-3933","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\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}