{"id":8180,"date":"2008-08-30T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_nytimes_the_caucus_blog_obama_calling\/"},"modified":"2008-08-30T04:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:08:02","slug":"from_the_nytimes_the_caucus_blog_obama_calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8180","title":{"rendered":"From the NYTimes The Caucus Blog: Obama Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/29\/mccain-vice-president\">Hey, I like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From his campaign bus in western Pennsylvania, Senator Barack Obama called Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska late Friday afternoon, offering his congratulations on her selection to the Republican ticket. In a conversation that lasted several minutes, aides said, Mr. Obama told her that she would be a terrific candidate and he looked forward to seeing her on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also wished her good luck, but not too much luck,\u201d\u009d said Robert Gibbs, a senior strategist to Mr. Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com\/2008\/08\/29\/obamas-plane-palin-problem\">But did the Obama Campaign send mixed messages?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I like this: From his campaign bus in western Pennsylvania, Senator Barack Obama called Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska late Friday afternoon, offering his congratulations on her selection to the Republican ticket. In a conversation that lasted several minutes,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8180\">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":[40,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","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=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}