{"id":19947,"date":"2010-08-01T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19947"},"modified":"2010-08-01T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T12:39:56","slug":"the-culture-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19947","title":{"rendered":"The culture of personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest email from Organizing for America;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Barrys-Birthday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19948\" title=\"Barry's Birthday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Barrys-Birthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Barrys-Birthday.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Barrys-Birthday-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember those birthday celebrations for Stalin? The Cuban government organizes birthday parties for Fidel Castro every year. North Koreans are forced to celebrate Kim Jong Il&#8217;s birthday. I&#8217;m not saying that Obama is a Stalin, an Il or a Castro. I&#8217;m just saying that celebrating birthdays for political reasons is just a little too much worship for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it could be worse &#8211; we could be forced to make a pilgrimage to his birth place. Where ever that is this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest email from Organizing for America; Remember those birthday celebrations for Stalin? The Cuban &hellip; <a title=\"The culture of personality\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19947\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The culture of personality<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}