{"id":190,"date":"2009-04-29T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaimerios.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:29:47","slug":"you-have-to-hand-it-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"You have to hand it to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set up this blog site for programming. <\/p>\n<p>I set up this site so that I could share with other programmers some of the problems I have had and how I overcame them.<\/p>\n<p>I set up this site, so that I could share with other developers who had similar problems as I did.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t set up this site to share my personal ideas, my daily to-dos or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>As time went on though, the very items I tried to keep off this site made it here.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, Facebook, Flickr. They&#8217;re here. I didn&#8217;t understand them at first, but I enjoy them and they&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n<p>Now Obama is here&#8230; he and politics have made their way to my website. <\/p>\n<p>I have to say, Obama&#8217;s use of the internet as been quite impressive. The White House portal, his use of Twitter on the campaign trail and now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr!!!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t lie. I don&#8217;t agree with his ideas, his policies or his plans, but I do agree that the use of the internet to make American&#8217;s more connected with the government is a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>It seems for quite some time now people don&#8217;t want to know what&#8217;s going on in the government unless it&#8217;s controversial.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree with that, and Obama is doing the right thing by making the U.S. government more visible. More tangible. Less frightening. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is filled with good people and we tend to forget that too. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget who we are and that we all neighbors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up this blog site for programming. I set up this site so that I could share with other programmers some of the problems I have had and how I overcame them. I set up this site, so that I could share with other developers who had similar problems as I did. I didn&#8217;t &#8230; <a title=\"You have to hand it to Obama\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/?p=190\" aria-label=\"Read more about You have to hand it to Obama\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[62,195,203,461],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-new","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-flickr","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}