{"id":182042,"date":"2016-01-11T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/11\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-im-sure-that-this-feels-like-the-back-of-the-hand\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:32:00","slug":"its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-im-sure-that-this-feels-like-the-back-of-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/11\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-im-sure-that-this-feels-like-the-back-of-the-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do, but I&#8217;m Sure That This Feels lIke the Back of the Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-obama-idUSKCN0UO0L720160110\">Obama will not endorse a Presidential candidate in the primaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to influence the selection of their successor is generally a losing proposition for a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I imagine that Hillary Clinton is a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama Obama will not endorse a Presidential candidate in the primaries. This is not unexpected. Attempting to influence the selection of their successor is generally a losing proposition for a sitting president. Still, I imagine that Hillary Clinton is a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}