{"id":2969,"date":"2008-09-03T19:59:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2008-09-03T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T23:59:05","slug":"quiet-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I'm not even slightly religious, and therefore unqualified to say this, I gotta say: Obama makes a far better spokesman for the values Christians like to call their own than any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2008\/9\/3\/11483\/34706\/Front_Page\/Theocrats_to_Pray_for_McCain_s_Death\">Bible-thumping Republican<\/a> ever could:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gIVFraQwm3c&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gIVFraQwm3c&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and he did this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/?p=11222\">without a teleprompter<\/a>. And nobody <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/postpartisan\/2008\/09\/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html\">wrote his speech for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I'm not even slightly religious, and therefore unqualified to say this, I gotta say: Obama makes a far better spokesman for the values Christians like to call their own than any Bible-thumping Republican ever could: Oh, and he did this without a teleprompter. And nobody wrote his speech for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}