{"id":1071,"date":"2008-08-31T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2008-08-31T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T12:02:14","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (60)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has only one bigger fan here in London and that&#8217;s Karin Robinson who leads the Obama in London campaign. You can read her latest comments on the candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/obamalondon.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/confessions-of-fan-girl.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe big difference between Karin and me is that as an American she actually has a vote. Of course, if the world citizenry was voting in this election, Obama would win by a landslide. This underlines two points:<br \/>\n1) This is an election with global consequences &#8211; the outcome will affect all nations and all citizens<br \/>\n2) One of the reasons why Obama is not walking the election is because most Americans do not have a world view of politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has only one bigger fan here in London and that&#8217;s Karin Robinson who leads the Obama in London campaign. You can read her latest comments on the candidate here. The big difference between Karin and me is that as an American she actually has a vote. Of course, if the world citizenry was [&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-1071","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\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}