{"id":1540,"date":"2009-03-05T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2009\/03\/05\/you-can-be-like-president-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:50:00","slug":"you-can-be-like-president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2009\/03\/05\/you-can-be-like-president-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"You can be like President Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;As for his pop-cult cred, we have been told repeatedly that <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Godfather<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">I<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">II <\/span>(but definitely not <span style=\"font-style: italic\">III<\/span>) are Obama&#8217;s top movie picks of all time.  His favorite TV show of recent years was HBO&#8217;s gritty, Baltimore-based epic <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Wire<\/span>, on which his favorite character was a stick up man named Omar, who made his living ripping off local drug lords.&#8221; &#8211;&#8220;The Cool President&#8221; in this weeks The New Republic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\">The Godfather<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\"> I<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 2541<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071562\/\">The Godfather II<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 2542<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0306414\/\">The Wire<\/a> (the complete series) &#8211; HU DVD 2861 &#8211; 2883\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As for his pop-cult cred, we have been told repeatedly that The Godfather I and II (but definitely not III) are Obama&#8217;s top movie picks of all time. His favorite TV show of recent years was HBO&#8217;s gritty, Baltimore-based epic The Wire, on which his favorite character was a stick up man named Omar, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}