{"id":3280,"date":"2009-07-02T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2009-07-02T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:04:10","slug":"the-honeymoon-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3280","title":{"rendered":"The Honeymoon Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Rothkopf<\/a> sees the events of the past few weeks as an indication that Obama’s press honeymoon is over:<\/p>\n

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Mark it on your calendars.\u00a0 It was in June 2009 that Barack Obama’s honeymoon officially ended.\u00a0 And to be more specific, it was this past week.\u00a0 Through some mysterious alchemy, this was the week that Bush’s economy became Obama’s, Bush’s wars became Obama’s, and the ups and downs of a real workaday relationship with the press also introduced Obama to a more accurate sense of what life was like for Bush and for all his other modern predecessors.<\/p>\n

While the change is clear for the reasons I will note below, no one should lament the end of the honeymoon, even though it may be hard for Obama and his colleagues in the Administration not to…the intractable problems keep piling up in the president’s inbox and the responses to them inevitably male them the unwanted property of this president rather than merely a legacy from the last…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Rothkopf sees the events of the past few weeks as an indication that Obama’s press honeymoon is over: Mark it on your calendars.\u00a0 It was in June 2009 that Barack Obama’s honeymoon officially ended.\u00a0 And to be more specific, it was this past week.\u00a0 Through some mysterious alchemy, this was the week that Bush’s […]<\/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":[143,4,66],"tags":[1638,2004],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-the-media","tag-david-rothkopf","tag-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-QU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","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=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}