{"id":239,"date":"2008-11-05T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:29","slug":"obamas-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/11\/obamas-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-240\" title=\"Obama in Harlem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Obama in Harlem\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After giving up on the excruciating computer graphics and talking heads of MSNBC&#8217;s election coverage, my friends and I got on the train and headed up to Harlem. We arrived at 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard not a minute before Barack Obama was declared winner. The enormous crowd, pouring into the streets far beyond what the barricades had planned for, was ecstatic. I could do no justice to the things I heard said by attempting to repeat them here. All over Harlem, traffic slowed to a stop because the streets were the people&#8217;s\u2014embracing, screaming with joy, dancing, greeting strangers (if there were any strangers at all anymore)<\/p>\n<p>This is only the beginning, and one can&#8217;t help but worry about inevitably false promises that politicians make. Or even the shortcomings of the promises. This is anything but the end. But what a beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-240\" title=\"Obama in Harlem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Obama in Harlem\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obamaharlem.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After giving up on the excruciating computer graphics and talking heads of MSNBC&#8217;s election coverage, my friends and I got on the train and headed up to Harlem. We arrived at 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard not a minute before Barack Obama was declared winner. The enormous crowd, pouring into the streets far beyond what the barricades had planned for, was ecstatic. I could do no justice to the things I heard said by attempting to repeat them here. All over Harlem, traffic slowed to a stop because the streets were the people&#8217;s\u2014embracing, screaming with joy, dancing, greeting strangers (if there were any strangers at all anymore)<\/p>\n<p>This is only the beginning, and one can&#8217;t help but worry about inevitably false promises that politicians make. Or even the shortcomings of the promises. This is anything but the end. But what a beginning.<\/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":[47,46,20,82,7,22,75],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-generation","tag-millenialism","tag-myth","tag-politics","tag-powers","tag-saints","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5692,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}