{"id":24095,"date":"2010-04-01T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24095"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:03:39","slug":"barack-obama-amanda-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/barack-obama-amanda-painter\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack says hello"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24096\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/600+web_obama_portland__4351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24096\" title=\"600+web_obama_portland__4351\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/600+web_obama_portland__4351.jpg?resize=600%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/600+web_obama_portland__4351.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/600+web_obama_portland__4351.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barack Obama on April 1, 2010 in his presidential limo, complete with the presidential seal (not shown), in the presidential motorcade, Portland, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This actually happened. I&#8217;m in Portland, Maine these days, and today Barack Obama came to town. Nobody can figure out why he came here, in particular, to stump for health insurance reform. I took my friend Amanda on our first journalism date &#8212; photographing the illustrious scene outside the Expo Center. We probably could have got tickets but didn&#8217;t have the energy to get up that early and wait on line; anyway outside is fine with me, it&#8217;s more interesting. After about five minutes, I lent Amanda one of my digital cameras because her film camera didn&#8217;t have a wide enough lens to get the shots she wanted. While I was busy interviewing members of the Teabagger movement about their opinion on car insurance, she wandered off for an hour and came back with a photo of Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This actually happened. I&#8217;m in Portland, Maine these days, and today Barack Obama came to town. Nobody can figure out why he came here, in particular, to stump for health insurance reform. I took my friend Amanda on our first journalism date &#8212; photographing the illustrious scene outside the Expo Center. We probably could have &#8230; <a title=\"Barack says hello\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/barack-obama-amanda-painter\/\" aria-label=\"More on Barack says hello\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}