{"id":1056,"date":"2008-08-23T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2008-08-23T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:33:42","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (54)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Barack Obama has chosen his Vice-Presidential running mate just days before the Democratic National Convention opens in Denver.<br \/>\nThe choice &#8211; Senator Joe Biden &#8211; is seen as balancing the ticket, mainly in terms of bringing strong knowledge of foreign affairs, although his older age and Roman Catholic affiliation are also viewed as complementary to Obama&#8217;s attributes.<br \/>\nThe news was too late for the British morning newspapers, but the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; covered it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/24\/us\/politics\/24biden.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Barack Obama has chosen his Vice-Presidential running mate just days before the Democratic National Convention opens in Denver. The choice &#8211; Senator Joe Biden &#8211; is seen as balancing the ticket, mainly in terms of bringing strong knowledge of foreign affairs, although his older age and Roman Catholic affiliation are also viewed as complementary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","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\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}