{"id":422139,"date":"2010-03-12T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32847"},"modified":"2010-03-12T08:51:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:51:31","slug":"rev-wrights-latest-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422139","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Wright&#8217;s latest on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;President Obama&#8217;s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright&#8211;whose fiery sermons presented the Obama presidential campaign with its greatest crisis&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/11\/AR2010031103926.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">talks to Hamill Harris of the Washington Post about Obama.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now retired from Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ, Wright<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/11\/AR2010031103926.html?hpid=moreheadlines\"> told<\/a> Harris, <em>&#8220;It is unrealistic to think that one person can change the mess that this country has gotten into, but to pick on him is like picking on one of my kids,&#8221; Wright said. &#8220;I have been knowing him for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have not stopped loving him because of what the press did, and to see him beat up on because of things he is not responsible for is painful.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;President Obama&#8217;s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright&#8211;whose fiery sermons presented the Obama presidential campaign with its greatest crisis&#8211; talks to Hamill Harris of the Washington Post about Obama. Now retired from Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ, Wright told Harris, &#8220;It is unrealistic to think that one person can change the mess that this country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422139","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}