{"id":7823,"date":"2010-01-14T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:03:57","slug":"obama-musical-set-to-open-in-germany-yahoo-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7823","title":{"rendered":"And A Step, And A Kick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100113\/ap_en_mu\/eu_germany_obama_musical\">never get the word:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A musical about Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Yes we can&#8221; election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t entirely <em>not <\/em>make sense; &#8220;The world&#8221; was perhaps Obama&#8217;s biggest constituency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The venue for the premiere seems appropriate since the optimism of Obamania remains largely intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America&#8217;s first black president. One campaign highlight was a July 2008 speech to some 200,000 people in the heart of Berlin about the world, the U.S. and its place in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, &#8220;Peanut Farmer From Plains&#8221; just closed last year in Munich, after a 32 year run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks\u00a0 never get the word: A musical about Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Yes we can&#8221; election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton. This doesn&#8217;t entirely not make sense; &#8220;The world&#8221; was perhaps Obama&#8217;s biggest constituency. The venue for the premiere seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","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=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}