{"id":1726,"date":"2009-01-20T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2009-01-20T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:42:13","slug":"the-content-of-his-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/the-content-of-his-character\/","title":{"rendered":"The Content of His Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/obama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-460\" title=\"obama1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/obama1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/obama1.jpg 479w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/obama1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>My daughter is 8 and my son is almost 6. He&#8217;s unaware of what&#8217;s going on in the world today, she&#8217;s aware but remarkably, blissfully, admirably nonplussed. I realize that while my mom and dad watched as beloved leader after beloved leader was shot down and removed from their destiny, and my wife and I grew up hoping but not really believing that we&#8217;d ever have a minority President, my kids are growing up in a world where that&#8217;s happened. I understand, I think, how they will see it. &#8220;Of course an Asian\/Woman\/Gay\/Latino\/Arab\/Jew can become President dad. Stop living in the Stone Ages.&#8221; That makes me happy. No matter your affiliation, pay attention to this day. Whatever your ideology, if you&#8217;re a patriot, you want this guy to succeed. The US is in trouble. Lets cling to this hope while we can. Celebrate while we can. And wake up and realize that today is history. Today, no matter your politics, is a day to be a proud America. Today we have a President named Barack Hussein Obama, and think he was elected based on the content of his character. I&#8217;m proud to be an American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter is 8 and my son is almost 6. He&#8217;s unaware of what&#8217;s going on in the world today, she&#8217;s aware but remarkably, blissfully, admirably nonplussed. I realize that while my mom and dad watched as beloved leader after beloved leader was shot down and removed from their destiny, and my wife and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}