{"id":1459,"date":"2008-08-27T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2008-08-28T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:20:02","slug":"ive-been-waiting-to-hear-exactly-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/ive-been-waiting-to-hear-exactly-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been waiting to hear exactly that"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our mission is to restore America&#8217;s influence and position in the world. We must use all the weapons in our arsenal, above all, our values. President Obama and Vice President Biden will shut down Guantanamo, respect the Constitution, and make clear once and for all, the United States of America does not torture, not now, not ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;Senator John Kerry, in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/articles\/2008\/08\/27\/remarks_of_john_f_kerry_to_the_democratic_national_convention\/\">convention speech<\/a> tonight<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of speech he needed in 2004. Check it out&#8211;there are some really good bits beyond the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;Our mission is to restore America&#8217;s influence and position in the world. We must use all the weapons in our arsenal, above all, our values. President Obama and Vice President Biden will shut down Guantanamo, respect the Constitution, and make clear once and for all, the United States of America does not torture, not now, not ever.&#8221; &mdash;Senator John Kerry,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/ive-been-waiting-to-hear-exactly-that\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[121,125,263,243],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-civil-liberties","tag-quote","tag-torture","tag-us-elections","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-nx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}