{"id":4187,"date":"2008-12-04T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:30:47","slug":"what-would-you-tell-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/what-would-you-tell-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you tell Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/blog\/godspolitics\/?p=4290&#038;title\">Sojourners<\/a> is asking folks, &#8220;What would you tell president-elect Obama if you had a chance meeting with him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;with rumors flying about the details of the Obamas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 impending move to the capital, Obama sightings may become none too rare for locals, forcing all D.C. residents to wonder, if given a fleeting audience with the president, what would I say?<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had the experts and notables in the Sojourners network weigh in with their memos to Obama (which I am excited for you all to read in full in the upcoming issue of Sojourners magazine), but truthfully, I am more curious to see what average Americans wish to tell the man on whom so much is riding these days, because to me it seems that our collective hopes, fears, dreams, and requests need to be heard in this time of change, so we never forget the felt needs of Americans today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They only ask that you send it as a picture &#8211; like so ::<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/611-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"611\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/611-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/611.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or like so ::<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/42-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"42\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/42-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/42.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what would you tell the president elect? Post your photo on your blog and share the link in the comments below or via twitter or somewhere we can all see it. And of course, while you&#8217;re at it &#8211; send a copy of it to <a href=\"mailto:interact@sojo.net\">interact@sojo.net<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and post mine later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sojourners is asking folks, &#8220;What would you tell president-elect Obama if you had a chance meeting with him?&#8221; &#8230;with rumors flying about the details of the Obamas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 impending move to the capital, Obama sightings may become none too rare for locals, forcing all D.C. residents to wonder, if given a fleeting audience with the president, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/what-would-you-tell-obama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What would you tell Obama?<\/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":[18,3,5,17],"tags":[85,1681,1682,1070,1128],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-misc","category-politics","category-take-action","tag-barack-obama","tag-memo","tag-picture","tag-president","tag-sojourners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-15x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}