{"id":17761,"date":"2010-02-06T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn-how_obamas_favorite_theologian_shaped_his_first_year_in_office\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:20:45","slug":"cnn-how_obamas_favorite_theologian_shaped_his_first_year_in_office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17761","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8211;How Obama&#39;s favorite theologian shaped his first year in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Reinhold] Niebuhr is getting attention again because he has a fan in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>In a widely cited New York Times column, President Obama called Niebuhr his &#8220;favorite philosopher.&#8221; But how precisely has Niebuhr&#8217;s philosophy influenced Obama and his handling of everything from health care reform to fighting terrorists?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may be seen by looking at Obama&#8217;s first year in office, several scholars, and a relative of Niebuhr&#8217;s, suggest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/02\/05\/Obama.theologian\/index.html?hpt=C2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Reinhold] Niebuhr is getting attention again because he has a fan in the Oval Office. In a widely cited New York Times column, President Obama called Niebuhr his &#8220;favorite philosopher.&#8221; But how precisely has Niebuhr&#8217;s philosophy influenced Obama and his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17761\">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":[39,40,168,616,151,667,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761","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=17761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}