{"id":10103,"date":"2008-12-11T17:14:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_hopes_to_reboot_us_image_among_muslims\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:14:22","slug":"obama_hopes_to_reboot_us_image_among_muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10103","title":{"rendered":"Obama hopes to reboot US image among Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to &#8220;reboot America&#8217;s image&#8221; among the world&#8217;s Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name \u201d\u201d Barack Hussein Obama \u201d\u201d in his swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. image globally has taken a deep hit during President George W. Bush&#8217;s two terms in office, primarily because of opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, harsh interrogation of prisoners, the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and mistreatment of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Obama promised during his campaign that one of his top priorities would be to work to repair America&#8217;s reputation worldwide, and that one element of that effort would be a speech delivered in a Muslim capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081210\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/obama_interview;_ylt=Ast14HBxyvpUsP8CU9LhNBc7Xs8F\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to &#8220;reboot America&#8217;s image&#8221; among the world&#8217;s Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name \u201d\u201d Barack Hussein Obama \u201d\u201d in his swearing-in ceremony. The U.S. image globally has taken a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10103\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,426,155,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}