{"id":1585,"date":"2008-02-02T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/yes-we-can\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T12:21:42","slug":"yes-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/yes-we-can\/","title":{"rendered":"yes we can (updated below)(another update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been been mostly refraining from posting on politics (compared to how much time I have invested in it personally). But this, I could not resist. Mr.Dippy: Yes We Can. Just beautiful. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n[youtube:http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=IrWaEaEZQys&amp;feature=related]\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The gist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Black Eyed Peas&#8217; frontman, songwriter and producer known as will.i.am, along with director and filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of another socially active musician, Bob Dylan&#8230;  celebrities and musicians banded together to create new music in the  heat of a presidential campaign. &#8230; appearances from a range of celebrities including: Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu &#8230; Amber Valetta and Nick Cannon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=4231523&amp;page=1\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> 2.<\/p>\n<p>youtube seems to keep removing it. you can view it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipdive.com\/\">here<\/a> if the above doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been been mostly refraining from posting on politics (compared to how much time I have invested in it personally). But this, I could not resist. Mr.Dippy: Yes We Can. Just beautiful. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!! [youtube:http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=IrWaEaEZQys&amp;feature=related] update. The gist: The Black Eyed Peas&#8217; frontman, songwriter and producer known as will.i.am, along with director and filmmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,10,4,9,8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-music","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-pz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/22\/dylan-thomas-graham-outlet\/","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":0},"title":"dylan thomas graham @ outlet","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I'm a traditionalist,\" says Abrie Fourie, behind a smirk that would tell even those who don't know him, that he takes pleasure in making such a false statement. 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