{"id":990,"date":"2008-06-25T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=990"},"modified":"2008-06-25T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T16:42:43","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (46)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/142647\">&#8220;Newsweek&#8221; article<\/a> makes some good points about Barack Obama and Europe:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Overwhelmingly Europeans want to see Obama returned to the White House.\n<li>Europeans don&#8217;t have a vote in this election and any attempt to interfere will be unhelpful to Obama.\n<li>Obama as President could well present some challenges to Europe &#8211; he will advance American interests which are not always European interests.<\/ol>\n<p>All this is as it should be. Obama would be good for the United States, good for Europe, and good for the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;Newsweek&#8221; article makes some good points about Barack Obama and Europe: Overwhelmingly Europeans want to see Obama returned to the White House. Europeans don&#8217;t have a vote in this election and any attempt to interfere will be unhelpful to Obama. Obama as President could well present some challenges to Europe &#8211; he will advance [&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-990","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\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}