{"id":1721,"date":"2012-04-18T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:34:35","slug":"obama-i-wasnt-born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-my-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/obama-i-wasnt-born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-my-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: \u2018I wasn&#8217;t born with a silver spoon in my mouth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Somebody gave me an education. I wasn&#8217;t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn&#8217;t. But somebody gave us a chance,&#8221; Obama said in a speech at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. &#8220;Right now we have two competing visions of our future, and the choice could not be clearer,&#8221; said the president.\u00a0&#8220;Should we settle for an economy where a few people do really well and then a growing number are struggling to get by?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/OTUS\/obama-born-silver-spoon-mouth\/story?id=16165379#.T49aqLNYvm5\">Obama: \u2018I wasn&#8217;t born with a silver spoon in my mouth&#8217; &#8211; ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Somebody gave me an education. I wasn&#8217;t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn&#8217;t. But somebody gave us a chance,&#8221; Obama said in a speech at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. &#8220;Right now we have two competing visions of our future, and the choice could not be clearer,&#8221; said the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[42,301,74,1091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}