{"id":1374,"date":"2008-11-04T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:50:12","slug":"fdrs-and-obamas-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"FDR&#8217;s and Obama&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Packer of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> has seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/georgepacker\/2008\/11\/obama-and-fear.html\">a certain heaviness about Obama recently<\/a>. He explains it by citing this story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the night of his landslide victory over Hoover, in 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt had an intimate conversation with his son James:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Jimmy,\u201d Franklin said, \u201call my life I have been afraid of only one thing\u2014fire. Tonight I think I\u2019m afraid of something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfraid of what, Pa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job.\u201d He paused reflectively. \u201cAfter you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But for now, a moment of triumph &#8211; a step, finally in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Packer of the New Yorker has seen a certain heaviness about Obama recently. He explains it by citing this story: On the night of his landslide victory over Hoover, in 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt had an intimate conversation with his son James: \u201cYou know, Jimmy,\u201d Franklin said, \u201call my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4],"tags":[941,940,187],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","tag-fdr","tag-george-packer","tag-new-yorker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ma","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}