{"id":467,"date":"2009-02-04T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/04\/straight-talk-from-barack\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T11:04:00","slug":"straight-talk-from-barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/04\/straight-talk-from-barack\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight talk from Barack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Obama followed half of my advice yesterday (you thought he didn&#8217;t read NCPR&#8217;s news blog?) and jettisoned the bubble speak.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews, the President acknowledged screwing up some of his cabinet appointments.  This from the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Did I screw up in this situation? Absolutely. I&#8217;m willing to take my lumps,&#8221; Obama told NBC&#8217;s Brian Williams, one of five interviews he gave yesterday afternoon. Obama told the network anchors that there are &#8220;not two sets of rules&#8221; for people, and said that average taxpayers deserve to have public officials who pay their taxes on time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Obama followed half of my advice yesterday (you thought he didn&#8217;t read NCPR&#8217;s news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}