{"id":7833,"date":"2011-09-20T14:26:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2011-09-20T14:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:26:53","slug":"the-rev-jeremiah-wright-recalls-obama%e2%80%99s-fall-from-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/20\/the-rev-jeremiah-wright-recalls-obama%e2%80%99s-fall-from-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama\u2019s Fall From Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those few of us who still appreciate him, <a title=\"Story about Rev. Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/rev-jeremiah-wright-recalls-obamas-fall-grace-1316497078\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama\u2019s Fall From Grace<\/strong><\/a>, is a worthwhile read.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to find just one thing to quote from the article.\u00a0 The one I have chosen is just the easiest one, not necessarily the best one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce that media-spun narrative is out there, from that point on all you hear is critiques of the narrative, deconstruction of the narrative, debates concerning the narrative, affirmations of the narrative, attacks on the narrative, with nobody talking about substance, because we don\u2019t even know what substance is,\u201d Wright said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are not a fan of Rev. Wright, don&#8217;t bother to read the article.\u00a0 The opening remarks of the author of the piece will have your eyes and ears flapping closed so fast that you won&#8217;t be able to see the words in the rest of the article even if your eyes wander over each and every one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I don&#8217;t agree with everything that is in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those few of us who still appreciate him, The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama\u2019s Fall From Grace, is a worthwhile read. It is hard to find just one thing to quote from the article.\u00a0 The one I have chosen is just the easiest one, not necessarily the best one. \u201cOnce that media-spun narrative is [&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-7833","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\/7833","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=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}