{"id":11724,"date":"2012-01-20T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2012-01-20T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:40:52","slug":"obama-sets-new-presidential-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/obama-sets-new-presidential-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Sets New Presidential Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fbZLkJJ2e0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;m probably the last person in America to have seen this clip of <strong>President Obama<\/strong> singing a bit of Al Green&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Stay Together,&#8221; but the American President&#8217;s Got Talent! Aside from candidate <strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong> playing sax on <em>The Arsenio Hall Show<\/em> so many moons ago, has any presidential candidate displayed his or her musical chops before? Has any sitting President or candidate come close to Obama&#8217;s display of musical talent, even caught on camera singning along in a church or something? Who cares about a candidate&#8217;s personal life, their stance on controversial issues, or how &#8220;presidential&#8221; their hair is? I want to know if a candidate&#8217;s got any musical chops!<\/p>\n<p><em>Among our current crop of presidential candidates (and leading political figures), in the US or your own nation, what song would you most like to hear tackled by a particular politician<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably the last person in America to have seen this clip of President Obama singing a bit of Al Green&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Stay Together,&#8221; but the American President&#8217;s Got Talent! Aside from candidate Bill Clinton playing sax on The Arsenio Hall Show so many moons ago, has any presidential candidate displayed his or her musical <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/obama-sets-new-presidential-standard\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}