{"id":1310,"date":"2008-11-05T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/11\/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:12:05","slug":"theres-no-one-as-irish-as-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/11\/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-barack-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No One as Irish as Barack O&#8217;Bama"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Once again we\u2019re blessed with a child of the old sod\u2026<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barack Obama is IRISH!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EADUQWKoVek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/anamchara.com\/2008\/11\/05\/congratulations-mr-obama\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anamchar<\/a>a, for yr pointer to this celebration of our new Irish president\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-794064833013902673?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we\u2019re blessed with a child of the old sod\u2026 thank you, Anamchara, for yr pointer to this celebration of our new Irish president\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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