{"id":315,"date":"2012-09-07T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:06:09","slug":"nation-building-a-welcomed-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/nation-building-a-welcomed-word\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nation-Building&#8221;&#8230; a Welcomed Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s1168.photobucket.com\/albums\/r494\/sylverbrowjr\/?action=view&amp;current=26c55648.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i1168.photobucket.com\/albums\/r494\/sylverbrowjr\/26c55648.jpg?w=640\"  alt=\"26c55648 &quot;Nation-Building&quot;... a Welcomed Word\"  border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt from President Barack Obama\u2019s speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My opponent &#8212; my opponent said it was \u201ctragic\u201d to end the war in Iraq, and he won\u2019t tell us how he\u2019ll end the war in Afghanistan. Well I have, and I will. And while my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs don\u2019t even want, I will use the money we\u2019re no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and runways.<\/p>\n<p>Because after two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it\u2019s time to do some nation- building right here at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/dnc-2012-obamas-speech-to-the-democratic-national-convention-full-transcript\/2012\/09\/06\/ed78167c-f87b-11e1-a073-78d05495927c_story.html?wprss=rss_congress\">CLICK HERE FOR FULL TRANSCRIPT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from President Barack Obama\u2019s speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention: &#8220;My opponent &#8212; my opponent said it was \u201ctragic\u201d to end the war in Iraq, and he won\u2019t tell us how he\u2019ll end the war in Afghanistan. Well I have, and I will. And while my opponent would spend more money on military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}