{"id":1540,"date":"2009-03-18T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2009-03-18T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T03:16:59","slug":"obama-heels-oh-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2009\/03\/obama-heels-oh-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Heels oh man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought that we&#8217;d pretty much run out of the the improbabilities surrounding the idea of a young African American named Barack Obama as President of the United States.<br \/>\nWell, toss in this one: they guy has worked out with the Tar Heels, even got his way around Tyler Hansbrough for a layup that almost went in. (Obama claims Hansbrough went easy on him, but a photo of the moment was said to be one of the few mementos that graced his Spartan transition office.)<br \/>\nNow comes word that the Commander in Chief, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/m.si.com\/news\/archive\/archive\/detail\/1372240\/full;jsessionid=E1DFAAA239E2E41027B3F1FC455F8C25.cnnsilive9i\">love of the game<\/a> is well-known, has filled out his brackets and has the Heels going all the way. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/colleges\/mens_basketball\/articles\/2009\/03\/18\/obama_going_with_tar_heels_to_win_it_all_in_ncaa\/\">Boston.com<\/a> (h\/t AD):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now, for all the Tar Heels who are watching, I picked you last year &#8212; you let me down,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;This year, don&#8217;t embarrass me in front of the nation, all right? I&#8217;m counting on you. I still got those sneakers you guys gave me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As if they had enough on their shoulders.<br \/>\nAt this point it should probably be noted that the president pulled out a win in North Carolina both in the primary and the general election. The general being won by a thin margin as the clock ran out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought that we&#8217;d pretty much run out of the the improbabilities surrounding the idea of a young African American named Barack Obama as President of the United States. Well, toss in this one: they guy has worked out with the Tar Heels, even got his way around Tyler Hansbrough for a layup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}