{"id":218683,"date":"2009-12-21T02:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T07:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.pacificviews.org:\/\/4824c0da07f2a098f1d36510ce015b72"},"modified":"2009-12-21T02:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T07:47:35","slug":"keeping-your-eyes-on-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218683","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your eyes on the prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/20\/the-wysiwyg-president\/\">provides some perspective<\/a> on the plight of those who saw Obama as a stronger progressive than he has thus far proven to be.  Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But back to Obama: the important thing to bear in mind is that <i>this isn\u0092t about him<\/i>; and, equally important, it isn\u0092t about you. If you\u0092ve fallen out of love with a politician, well, so what? You should just keep working for the things you believe in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a timely message for many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman provides some perspective on the plight of those who saw Obama as a stronger progressive than he has thus far proven to be. Money quote: But back to Obama: the important thing to bear in mind is that this isn\u0092t about him; and, equally important, it isn\u0092t about you. If you\u0092ve fallen out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}