{"id":558,"date":"2008-02-11T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2008\/02\/11\/why-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:25:47","slug":"why-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/why-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been, and remain, a fan of Dennis Kucinich. A Kucinich presidency would be truly revolutionary, which is why he&#8217;ll never get the job. So these days I&#8217;ve become a fan of Barack Obama. Today I <a href=\"http:\/\/noreaster.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/06\/lessig-on-why-hes-for-barack\/\">encountered<\/a> a great video by <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/\">Larry Lessig<\/a> on why he supports Obama. Take the 18 minutes and 32 seconds to absorb it.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Flessig%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F&#038;showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" id=\"showplayer\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Flessig%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F&#038;showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been, and remain, a fan of Dennis Kucinich. A Kucinich presidency would be truly revolutionary, which is why he&#8217;ll never get the job. So these days I&#8217;ve become a fan of Barack Obama. Today I encountered a great video by Larry Lessig on why he supports Obama. Take the 18 minutes and 32 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-90","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}