{"id":1046,"date":"2008-08-08T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2008-08-08T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:47:07","slug":"baracks-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Barack&#8217;s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my 60th birthday, I received lots of books. I started by reading the two written by the Democratic candidate for the White House Barack Obama: &#8220;Dreams Of My Father&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/biographies.html#DFMF\">here<\/a>] and, the one I have just finished, &#8220;The Audacity Of Hope&#8221;  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TAOH\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nI have been blogging about Barack Obama for more than four years &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.co.uk\/nighthawk-static\/permalink.php?id=489_0_1_0_C\">this posting<\/a>. When he ran for the Senate, I did 11 postings; in his race to be President, I&#8217;ve already done 53 postings.<br \/>\nTruly I think this man is remarkable and his books only confirm my faith in him. In his second book, he captures what people feel about him when he writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And sometimes someone will grab my hand and tell me that they have great hopes for me, but that they are worried that Washington is going to change me and I will end up just like all the rest of the people in power. Please stay who you are, they will say to me. Please don&#8217;t disappoint us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t disappoint me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my 60th birthday, I received lots of books. I started by reading the two written by the Democratic candidate for the White House Barack Obama: &#8220;Dreams Of My Father&#8221; [my review here] and, the one I have just finished, &#8220;The Audacity Of Hope&#8221; [my review here]. I have been blogging about Barack Obama for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}