{"id":357,"date":"2006-12-25T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/12\/25\/the-audacity-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:51:26","slug":"the-audacity-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-audacity-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"the audacity of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I find comfort in the fact that the longer I&#8217;m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>bloody brilliant. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> from &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAudacity-Hope-Thoughts-Reclaiming-American%2Fdp%2F0307237699%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1167103036%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=normalblog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Audacity of Hope<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=normalblog-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8216;, published a few months ago, reviewed yesterday in The New York Times Book Review.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find comfort in the fact that the longer I&#8217;m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience. bloody brilliant. Barack Obama from &#8216;The Audacity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[55],"series":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-obama"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}