{"id":11427,"date":"2010-06-16T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2010-06-16T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:31:52","slug":"the-thrill-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11427","title":{"rendered":"The Thrill Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that Obama is losing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/janetdaley\/100043670\/british-media-falls-out-of-love-with-obama\/\">his most cherished constituency?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The BBC reports of Barack Obama\u2019s speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation of Hope and Optimism. Yes indeed, the romance is over. The British media have decided that it was all a cruel deception: Obama is just one more ranting populist president who will do anything to divert attention from his own failure to get a grip. And this is not just about BP and the fate of all those pension funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And his polls in Muslim countries are collapsing, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that Obama is losing his most cherished constituency? The BBC reports of Barack Obama\u2019s speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation of Hope and Optimism. Yes indeed, the romance is over. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11428,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}