{"id":14892,"date":"2009-09-10T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_diagnoses_vary_on_obama_health-care_speech\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:23:52","slug":"ap_diagnoses_vary_on_obama_health-care_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14892","title":{"rendered":"AP: Diagnoses vary on Obama health-care speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some were moved to tears by the president&#8217;s soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others.<\/p>\n<p>Americans listened intently to President Barack Obama&#8217;s much-anticipated speech on health care reform Wednesday night, and not surprisingly, their reviews varied. Few said they had changed their minds.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Petrovick set his treadmill at a leisurely 2.8 mph pace so he could pay full attention to the television on the wall in front of him. He&#8217;s not sure the president&#8217;s words boosted his heart rate, but the speech certainly got him going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jzgqLJ4zWWaPJWv4cSe4drpFIP8AD9AKCHC00\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some were moved to tears by the president&#8217;s soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14892\">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":[39,40,513,104,617,616,151,667,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14892","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=14892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}