{"id":12452,"date":"2009-04-24T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_finds_sermon_on_the_mount_elevates_speeches\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:16:55","slug":"obama_finds_sermon_on_the_mount_elevates_speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12452","title":{"rendered":"Obama finds Sermon on the Mount elevates speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2006 speech here, then-Sen. Barack Obama said Jesus&#8217; Sermon on the Mount was so &#8220;radical&#8221; the Defense Department wouldn&#8217;t survive its application. Earlier this month (April), the new president suggested the economy couldn&#8217;t get along without it.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of a nuts-and-bolts speech at Georgetown University on economic policy, Obama overtly cited the sermon&#8217;s parable of two men, one of whom builds his house on rock, the other on sand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;We must build our house upon a rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=17962\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2006 speech here, then-Sen. Barack Obama said Jesus&#8217; Sermon on the Mount was so &#8220;radical&#8221; the Defense Department wouldn&#8217;t survive its application. Earlier this month (April), the new president suggested the economy couldn&#8217;t get along without it. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12452\">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":[39,40,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452","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=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}