{"id":303,"date":"2008-08-27T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2008-08-27T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:59:59","slug":"bidens-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/bidens-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steelturman.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/05\/26\/1_joe_biden_poster.jpg\"height=\"140\" width=\"170\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who couldn&#8217;t listen to the whole thing because you were looking for nickels in your sofa cushions, here&#8217;s a summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.  It doesn&#8217;t get more blue collar than that.  My parents believed in the American dream.  My dad fell on hard times, but we bounced back.  He said to me, &#8220;Champ, when you get knocked down, get up. Get up.&#8221;  My mother told me, &#8220;Joey, God sends no cross you cannot bear.&#8221;  She taught us to have faith and be tough, and to face down every challenge.  Our family has seen more than it&#8217;s share of adversity.  We did what we had to do, and I am so proud of what we achieved.<\/p>\n<p>So, now that I see so many people struggling, I have to ask, &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t the government helping all these people?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then proceeded to bash &#8220;my dear, good friend, and I mean it,&#8221; John McCain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who couldn&#8217;t listen to the whole thing because you were looking for nickels in your sofa cushions, here&#8217;s a summary: &#8220;I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It doesn&#8217;t get more blue collar than that. My parents believed in the American dream. My dad fell on hard times, but we bounced back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}