{"id":1697,"date":"2008-11-05T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/i-have-never-been-prouder-to-be-an-american-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T12:24:11","slug":"i-have-never-been-prouder-to-be-an-american-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/i-have-never-been-prouder-to-be-an-american-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"I have never been prouder to be an American. Ever. (update: Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr President-Elect Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/27546437#27546437\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr President-Elect Barack Obama.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1699,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/08\/in-her-own-words-teacher-moved-by-students-joy-over-obama-win\/","url_meta":{"origin":1697,"position":0},"title":"In her own words: Teacher moved by students&#8217; joy over Obama win","author":"nathaniel","date":"08 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I simply had to re-blog the whole article, in its entirety. 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