{"id":180,"date":"2010-01-05T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:17:45","slug":"the-audacity-of-hope-the-reality-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"The Audacity Of Hope, The Reality Of Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Americans are less hopeful going into 2010 than going into 2000 (link to article below).\u00a0 Then 85%, now 69%.\u00a0 Mr. Obama &#8211; Mr. Hope &#8211; where is your fix?\u00a0 The banks are almost all giving out their gigantic bonuses &#8211; but what about the common man, what about your mandate?\u00a0 How can there be so little hope for the average American now, in your saving grace?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/12\/31\/us.confidence.poll\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Americans are less hopeful going into 2010 than going into 2000 (link to article below).\u00a0 Then 85%, now 69%.\u00a0 Mr. Obama &#8211; Mr. Hope &#8211; where is your fix?\u00a0 The banks are almost all giving out their gigantic bonuses &#8211; but what about the common man, what about your mandate?\u00a0 How can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}