{"id":6610,"date":"2016-11-23T00:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:17:40","slug":"6610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6610","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA&#8217;S WISE COUNSEL TO HIS DAUGHTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What President Obama told his daughters about Trump:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat I say to them is that people are complicated,\u201d Obama told me. \u201cSocieties and cultures are really complicated \u2026 This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it\u2019s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there\u2019s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn\u2019t stop \u2026 You don\u2019t get into a fetal position about it. You don\u2019t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HT: Karen Swallow Prior Twitter Account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/11\/28\/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/11\/28\/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What President Obama told his daughters about Trump: \u201cWhat I say to them is that people are complicated,\u201d Obama told me. \u201cSocieties and cultures are really complicated \u2026 This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it\u2019s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}