{"id":1315,"date":"2009-01-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T17:00:00","slug":"americas-first-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s First Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just inaugurated our first black President.&#160; I want to reiterate what I said <a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=361\" target=\"_blank\">some months back<\/a>; I&#8217;m proud of our country for this accomplishment.&#160; This by no means says that racism is completely dead in America.&#160; But it does speak to the great progress made since Martin Luther King, Jr. had his dream.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Telling a child of any race that they can, through hard work, be whatever they want to be, even President of the United States, isn&#8217;t some guilt-assuaging wishful thinking.&#160; It has happened.&#160; Racists, as with any sin, will always be with us.&#160; But Barack Obama&#8217;s move into the Oval Office shows that it can be done.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just inaugurated our first black President.&#160; I want to reiterate what I said some months back; I&#8217;m proud of our country for this accomplishment.&#160; This by no means says that racism is completely dead in America.&#160; But it does speak to the great progress made since Martin Luther King, Jr. had his dream.&#160; Telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-race-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}