{"id":475,"date":"2008-05-26T17:15:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T22:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-05-26T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T22:15:36","slug":"the-two-most-powerful-narratives-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"The two most powerful narratives in American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/25\/opinion\/25dowd.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">Maureen Dowd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hillary knows that in politics, bimbos erupt. Tapes leak. Husbands disappoint. Friends commit suicide. Rivals get sick. Her Senate race against Rudy Giuliani suddenly turned in her favor when he got prostate cancer and dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>The macabre story of 2008 is that the vice presidential picks are important. On the Republican side, it\u2019s because of John McCain\u2019s age and history of skin cancer, and that\u2019s openly discussed.<\/p>\n<p>But on the Democratic side, it is, as The Times\u2019s Obama reporter Jeff Zeleny has written, a \u201chushed worry.\u201d Barack Obama has fused two of the most powerful narratives in American history \u2014 those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Camelot \u2014 and that makes him both magical and vulnerable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Dowd: Hillary knows that in politics, bimbos erupt. Tapes leak. Husbands disappoint. Friends commit suicide. Rivals get sick. Her Senate race against Rudy Giuliani suddenly turned in her favor when he got prostate cancer and dropped out. The macabre story of 2008 is that the vice presidential picks are important. On the Republican side, [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4],"tags":[319,148],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-7F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}