{"id":1727,"date":"2009-02-19T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2009-02-19T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:03:52","slug":"stalking-obama-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/stalking-obama-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalking Obama &#8211; reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was there!  I stood about 10 feet from Barack Obama&#8217;s motorcade and I actually SAW HIM!!!!  He was waving and smiling to the crowds through the window!  It was so unexpected and delightful and CLOSE!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I debated the whole time I was standing there whether to go with still photos or video, and in the end video won out.  Quality is not terrific, so you&#8217;ll have to take my word for it, but he&#8217;s in the second limo (fourth vehicle) that passes.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u2M3V2GT1Lc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u2M3V2GT1Lc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I found out later that he got OUT OF THE CAR and walked around the Market SHAKING HANDS WITH PEOPLE just steps away from where I stood after I turned and walked the other way.  Oh well, I&#8217;m more than pleased with my brush with celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>More pix and more story later, gotta get the kids to bed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was there! I stood about 10 feet from Barack Obama&#8217;s motorcade and I actually SAW HIM!!!! He was waving and smiling to the crowds through the window! It was so unexpected and delightful and CLOSE!!!! I debated the whole time I was standing there whether to go with still photos or video, and in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/stalking-obama-reprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stalking Obama &#8211; reprise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}