{"id":1000,"date":"2008-11-05T23:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2008-11-09T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:09:08","slug":"the-long-road-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/05\/the-long-road-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The long road to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 campaign for president was exhausting. But what an ending!<\/p>\n<p>I saw Barack Obama speak twice in Columbia, once at the Convention Center and again at Williams Brice Stadium, when Oprah was stumping for him. Last night, I was in the Stadium again, this time with friends at a party watching the election returns. The mood was electric.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look back. And forward.<\/p>\n<p>Becci Robbins<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bzvEhjUA6as&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bzvEhjUA6as&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yX2RE5mge1Y&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yX2RE5mge1Y&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 campaign for president was exhausting. But what an ending! I saw Barack Obama speak twice in Columbia, once at the Convention Center and again at Williams Brice Stadium, when Oprah was stumping for him. Last night, I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/05\/the-long-road-to-the-white-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}