{"id":102,"date":"2008-09-01T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:02:03","slug":"mr-obama-replies-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Obama replies! (Kind of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a text message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barack asks that you give to the Red Cross: give 5 dollars by texting GIVE to 24357 or give more by calling 1-800-435-7669 or at redcross.org\/donte. Please fwd&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So apparently it&#8217;s ok that I call him Barack.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to make a bunch of jokes here about how he must have misread my last post etc, but given that I don&#8217;t take Gulf Coast Hurricanes lightly, I find that I mainly just want to get the word out. If you can help, please do. There&#8217;s still a lot of need even though Gustav wasn&#8217;t as bad as was feared.<\/p>\n<p>For those readers of this blog who are down there: Hang tight. Looks like Gustav petered, but here comes Hanna.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the tone of the text from Obama, I have to say that there&#8217;s something about the &#8220;Barack asks that you&#8230;&#8221; that makes me think I drank some cool-aid somewhere along the line.<\/p>\n<p>This is a weird post. Deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a text message: &#8220;Barack asks that you give to the Red Cross:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[136,161,7],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog","tag-activism","tag-barak-obama","tag-hurricane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}