{"id":8837,"date":"2017-01-20T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:00:20","slug":"parting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/20\/parting-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Parting Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/obama_final-days-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/obama_final-days-1.jpg\" alt=\"obama_final-days\" width=\"760\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/obama_final-days-1.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/obama_final-days-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there\u2019s evil in the world, but I think at the end of the day, if we work hard and if we\u2019re true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time. That\u2019s what this presidency has tried to be about. &#8230; at my core, I think we\u2019re going to be OK. We just have to fight for it, we have to work for it and not take it for granted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Barack Obama at the conclusion of his final press conference as President of the United States,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">January 18, 2017<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there\u2019s evil in the world, but I think at the end of the day, if we work hard and if we\u2019re true to those things in us that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}