{"id":2266,"date":"2010-01-29T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2010-01-29T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T03:52:25","slug":"gotta-say-it-was-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/01\/29\/gotta-say-it-was-a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Say it Was a Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With due deference to Ice-Cube (minus<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDa_Lench_Mob&amp;ei=r6xjS8SiHpL-tQOcqc2dAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHpLXIFD5uEEy0ag5A63aO1-GOcpQ&amp;sig2=XxVXMy9zG66radVkbzO6bg\"> <em>da Lench Mob<\/em><\/a>), the President&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.nytimes.com\/click.phdo?i=9e023d050134d3b8a14e77566e89a638\"><em>t<\/em><em>ete-a-tete<\/em> with Congressional Republicans at their legislative retreat<\/a> was a welcome change from the\u00a0 scripted speeches that characterize Washington D.C.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw an American president field question from the opposing party.\u00a0 It was the most interesting hour of political television I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.\u00a0 Sadly, it shouldn&#8217;t be as rare as it is.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the Q&amp;A in it&#8217;s entirety.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oBuG2TdgMn0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With due deference to Ice-Cube (minus da Lench Mob), the President&#8217;s\u00a0 tete-a-tete with Congressional Republicans at their legislative retreat was a welcome change from the\u00a0 scripted speeches that characterize Washington D.C.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw an American president field question from the opposing party.\u00a0 It was the most interesting hour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}