{"id":246,"date":"2008-11-05T05:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-11-05T05:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:49:43","slug":"obama-08-addis-ababa-ethiopia-november-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/obama-08-addis-ababa-ethiopia-november-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#8217;08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Obama '08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2008 by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3005223026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3283\/3005223026_0417cabec0_o.jpg\" alt=\"Obama '08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2008\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia was alight with Obama fever, fervently wishing for a fellow African to ascend to the highest office of the world&#8217;s sole superpower (and firm ally of Ethiopia). Had he somehow not won the Presidency, I think he could have easily come to Ethiopia and defeated Prime Minister Meles Zanawi in an election&#8211;even though there is none scheduled for over a year!  There is a lot of excitement here that expects things from Obama that I just don&#8217;t think is in his power; the U. S. has limited influence on Ethiopian and African affairs, or one would see a much better democratic process in Ethiopia and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia was alight with Obama fever, fervently wishing for a fellow African to ascend to the highest office of the world&#8217;s sole superpower (and firm ally of Ethiopia). Had he somehow not won the Presidency, I think he could have easily come to Ethiopia and defeated Prime Minister Meles Zanawi in an election&#8211;even though there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/obama-08-addis-ababa-ethiopia-november-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama &#8217;08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2008&#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":[8],"tags":[280,287,626],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-election","tag-ethiopia","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}