{"id":673,"date":"2008-03-18T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/crossing-paths-with-obama-in-philly\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:02:08","slug":"crossing-paths-with-obama-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/crossing-paths-with-obama-in-philly\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing paths with Obama in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Totally randomly, I was scheduled to stop in Philadelphia for two NPR interviews at WHYY at the same time that Obama was giving his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/18cnd-obama.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">eagerly anticipated (historic?) speech on race<\/a> right across the street at the National Constitution Center. (Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/18text-obama.html\">text<\/a>). Here are all the satellite trucks lined out front from WHYY&#8217;s second-floor vantage point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/obamaspeech.JPG\" title=\"Television vans waiting outside Constitution Hall for Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Race speech in Philadephia\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/obamaspeech.JPG\" title=\"Television vans waiting outside Constitution Hall for Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Race speech in Philadephia\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/obamaspeech.JPG\" alt=\"Television vans waiting outside Constitution Hall for Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Race speech in Philadephia\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally randomly, I was scheduled to stop in Philadelphia for two NPR interviews at WHYY at the same time that Obama was giving his eagerly anticipated (historic?) speech on race right across the street at the National Constitution Center. (Here is the text). Here are all the satellite trucks lined out front from WHYY&#8217;s second-floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}