{"id":1292,"date":"2009-01-22T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2009-01-22T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:53:35","slug":"bartlet-santos-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Bartlet + Santos = Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re as massive a fan of the television series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westwingepguide.com\/\">&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;<\/a> as I am, you can&#8217;t help but think of President Barack Obama as a combination of the erudition and eloquence of President Jed Bartlet and the minority ethnicity and youth of President Matt Santos.<br \/>\nOver the seven series of &#8220;The West Wing&#8221;, we got to know the president&#8217;s aides very well. People like Leo, Josh, C.J and Toby. But who are now their real life equivalents in the White House? Today the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/22\/barack-obama-white-house-layout\">this feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re as massive a fan of the television series &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; as I am, you can&#8217;t help but think of President Barack Obama as a combination of the erudition and eloquence of President Jed Bartlet and the minority ethnicity and youth of President Matt Santos. Over the seven series of &#8220;The West Wing&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}