{"id":3817,"date":"2009-04-07T20:10:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2009-04-07T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:14:37","slug":"pride-in-our-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3817","title":{"rendered":"Pride in our President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading the NYT on a plane this morning about Obama’s speech to Turkey’s Parliament. So many thoughts went through my mind – from my Turkish grandparents whose ancestors were welcomed into a secular country all the way to a president who is so close to my diverse background and able to reach across racial and religious divides and inject the personal, to be familiar to a stranger. The cab that picked me up at the airport had the pale blue Turkish eye hanging from his rearview mirror – I asked him if he was Turkish – no, Armenian<\/em> – I said did you hear Obama’s speech – and he said he read about it. I told him I cried when I read his speech, how he was able to address Turkey, Muslims, Armenians, Europeans, Americans and represent a unified theme – wow, am I dreaming? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the NYT on a plane this morning about Obama’s speech to Turkey’s Parliament. So many thoughts went through my mind – from my Turkish grandparents whose ancestors were welcomed into a secular country all the way to a president who is so close to my diverse background and able to reach across racial and religious divides and inject the personal, to be familiar to a stranger. The cab that picked me up… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}