{"id":1230,"date":"2008-11-05T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:11","slug":"soul-food-for-the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Soul Food For The Morning After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely proud of both President-elect Obama and Senator McCain during their respective speeches last night. I thought they were both pitch perfect&#8211;humble, gracious, conciliatory, both obviously mad in love with this country. Hardly the rantings of a terrorist Antichrist or a senile, warmongering monster, two caricatures which, despite millions of dollars in negative ads over the course of the past few months, just don&#8217;t quite stick.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of pitch perfect, my good friend Doug Mendenhall, <em>Huntsville Times<\/em> columnist and journalism professor at Abilene Christian University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/religion\/huntsvilletimes\/dmendenhall.ssf?\/base\/living\/122544455195080.xml&#038;coll=1&#038;thispage=1\">offers up a nice portion of soul food for the morning after.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a conservative, liberal or something in between, <em>bon appetit<\/em> and God bless.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--dcee7d83086c5ea84b8328e085718613--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely proud of both President-elect Obama and Senator McCain during their respective speeches last night. I thought they were both pitch perfect&#8211;humble, gracious, conciliatory, both obviously mad in love with this country. Hardly the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,22,23,27,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-christianity","category-current-events","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9262,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/9262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}