{"id":3845,"date":"2022-02-10T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2022-02-10T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:29:09","slug":"obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/02\/obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate thinking about it. We were eight years in power, as Ta-nehisi&#8217;s book says. The thing I keep hating to think about is:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Barack Obama\u2019s legacy? Outside of being the first?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s none.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing changed. The only thing I can think of that started with that administration is incorporating social media with politics. That\u2019s like, not a so great legacy to have. I wish it hadn\u2019t happened at all.<\/p>\n<p>What else? Obamacare, but it\u2019s still getting beat up by states and political opposition every now and then. The drone attacks never stopped (and no, I don\u2019t blame him specifically for that; the US military is its own independent system and government at this point). Same sex marriage legalized, sure.<\/p>\n<p>His swag was obviously much better than any previous president but the bar was in hell, so.<\/p>\n<p>Those eight straight years with a black president feel like they didn\u2019t happen. The 2010s will be more remembered for social media and 45 than Barack\u2019s tenure in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>I hate thinking about this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/43e085cf3afdc96efa5d7b3f7be397de.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I love remembering them. This photoset is carved into my soul. A partnership that is quite a model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate thinking about it. We were eight years in power, as Ta-nehisi&#8217;s book says. The thing I keep hating to think about is: What&#8217;s Barack Obama\u2019s legacy? Outside of being the first? There\u2019s none. Nothing changed. The only thing I can think of that started with that administration is incorporating social media with politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}