{"id":689,"date":"2008-03-14T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/14\/obama-and-the-inuit\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:21:41","slug":"obama-and-the-inuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/14\/obama-and-the-inuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the Inuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of <a href = \"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120545277093135111.html\"><b>noise<\/b><\/a> this week about Obama and the former minister at his church. I&#8217;m pro-Obama, so I&#8217;m gonna see things through that filter, but I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s substance to the issue. If O. hadn&#8217;t repeatedly rejected what Wright has said, that&#8217;d be different. But he has.<br \/>\nI think most of us like and associate with folks whose political views would look, um, unhelpful repeated over and over on TV. This hits particularly close for me, as many of you know. Heavy sigh.<br \/>\nI have this pal (let&#8217;s call him &#8220;Bill&#8221;). Bill believes that for several years now &#8212; since shortly before 9\/11 in fact &#8212; Eskimos have been taking the marmalade out of these homemade marmalade jars he makes and replacing them with store-bought marmalade. Now, I didn&#8217;t choose &#8220;Bill&#8221; as my friend because of his ignorant theories about the Inuit. In fact, I&#8217;ve repeatedly rejected and denounced his statements.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s still my friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of noise this week about Obama and the former minister at his church. I&#8217;m pro-Obama, so I&#8217;m gonna see things through that filter, but I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s substance to the issue. If O. hadn&#8217;t repeatedly rejected what Wright has said, that&#8217;d be different. But he has. I think most of us like and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}