{"id":166,"date":"2008-10-09T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:31","slug":"obama-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/10\/obama-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/election08\/579\/obama_territory\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-167\" title=\"Brown Memorial Baptist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"Brown Memorial Baptist\" width=\"125\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve got a new piece out today on <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>, which I did after <a href=\"\/2008\/09\/soldiering-for-obama\/\">soldiering for Obama<\/a> in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. The white racism I saw there made me want to see Obama&#8217;s candidacy from the other side of the tracks, so I went to the wonderful Baptist church next to my apartment building, where I was warmly welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>In the article I explore how such great hopes are being put in Obama in a neighborhood not quite able to believe that a black man might actually be president. The unanswered question is whether he will ever deliver on what he represents there. Take a look at <a title=\"Obama Territory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/election08\/579\/obama_territory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama Territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/election08\/579\/obama_territory\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-167\" title=\"Brown Memorial Baptist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"Brown Memorial Baptist\" width=\"125\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve got a new piece out today on <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>, which I did after <a href=\"\/2008\/09\/soldiering-for-obama\/\">soldiering for Obama<\/a> in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. The white racism I saw there made me want to see Obama&#8217;s candidacy from the other side of the tracks, so I went to the wonderful Baptist church next to my apartment building, where I was warmly welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>In the article I explore how such great hopes are being put in Obama in a neighborhood not quite able to believe that a black man might actually be president. The unanswered question is whether he will ever deliver on what he represents there. Take a look at <a title=\"Obama Territory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/election08\/579\/obama_territory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama Territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,31,82,81,76,62,77],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-drama","tag-new-york-city","tag-politics","tag-popularity","tag-prophecy","tag-skepticism","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}