{"id":2151,"date":"2007-02-24T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:31","slug":"barack-in-texas-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/barack-in-texas-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack in Texas this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.chron.com\/photos\/2007\/02\/23\/5269033\/311xInlineGallery.jpg\"><br \/>\nPresidential candidate <b>Barack Obama<\/b> was greeted in Austin yesterday by over 15,000 people in the state&#8217;s capital. The Star Telegram reported 20,000.<br \/>\nSources for the Austin American Statesman suggested the candidate may have raised over $250,000 during his trip to the &#8220;Longhorn State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standing on a platform slickened by intermittent rain, the third-year U.S. senator from Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate celebrated the nation&#8217;s history of overcoming injustices, ranging from slavery to civil rights discrimination to the denial of voting rights to women.<br \/>\nObama, who has proposed a phased removal of U.S. troops from Iraq starting in May, said he&#8217;s proud of opposing the American invasion of Iraq from the start&#8230;<br \/>\nObama said: &#8220;I am an imperfect vessel. This campaign is not going to be about me. Ultimately, it&#8217;s going to be about you.&#8221;<br \/>\nUrging people to enlist friends on his behalf, he said: &#8220;Tell &#8217;em it&#8217;s time for you to turn off the TV, stop playing GameBoy. We&#8217;ve got work to do.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more from the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/02\/24\/24obama.html?COXnetJSessionIDbuild14=W84NFgZRtT7Cx4hZQhJ6SpS1tbyhrZPTN1GpmMvQCNzXntSDTyBV!915057589&amp;cxtype=rss&amp;cxsvc=7&amp;cxcat=52&amp;UrAuth=%60NcNUOaNXUbTTUWUXUVUZTZUaUWU^U]UZUcU_UcTYWVVZV&amp;urcm=y\">Statesman<\/span>, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/texassouthwest\/stories\/DN-obama_24tex.ART.State.Edition1.2061277.html\">Morning News<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/politics\/4578168.html\">Chronicle<\/A> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/dfw\/16775396.htm\">Star Telegram<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Barack Obama was greeted in Austin yesterday by over 15,000 people in the state&#8217;s capital. The Star Telegram reported 20,000. Sources for the Austin American Statesman suggested the candidate may have raised over $250,000 during his trip to the &#8220;Longhorn State.&#8221; Standing on a platform slickened by intermittent rain, the third-year U.S. senator &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/barack-in-texas-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barack in Texas this weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-yH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}