{"id":4498,"date":"2015-12-06T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2015-12-06T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:22:40","slug":"epitaph-obama-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4498","title":{"rendered":"EPITAPH FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Parry at Consortiumnews <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/12\/06\/obamas-credibility-crisis\/\">writes<\/a> that the President &#8220;seems to want so desperately to be one of the elite inhabitants of Official Washington\u2019s bubble that he keeps pushing narratives that he knows aren\u2019t true, all the better to demonstrate that he belongs in the in-crowd. It has reached the point that he speaks out so many sides of his mouth that no one can tell what his words actually mean.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Parry at Consortiumnews writes that the President &#8220;seems to want so desperately to be one of the elite inhabitants of Official Washington\u2019s bubble that he keeps pushing narratives that he knows aren\u2019t true, all the better to demonstrate that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}