{"id":361,"date":"2008-06-03T19:15:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-06-03T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:15:36","slug":"congratulations-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s (mostly) official.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/03\/AR2008060300273_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination<\/a>, based on the number of convention delegates who are either pledged to him or are super-delegates that say they&#8217;ll vote for him.&#160; Partisanship and politics aside, this is a fantastic day for America, having the first black candidate for the White House.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I believe this isn&#8217;t so much a step on the journey as it is an indication &#8212; proof, if you will &#8212; that those steps have already been taken.&#160; I&#8217;m proud of our country, and frankly I&#8217;d have been just as proud had Hillary Clinton been the first woman to lead a major party ticket.&#160; That she was a viable candidate the entire way through the primary season also speaks to our progress on that journey.<\/p>\n<p>(And now, let the games begin. &gt;grin&lt;)<\/p>\n<p>[tags]US presidential campaign,Barack Obama,Hillary Clinton[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s (mostly) official.&#160; Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, based on the number of convention delegates who are either pledged to him or are super-delegates that say they&#8217;ll vote for him.&#160; Partisanship and politics aside, this is a fantastic day for America, having the first black candidate for the White House.&#160; I believe [&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-361","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\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}