{"id":1275,"date":"2010-02-18T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-02-18T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:00:18","slug":"and-then-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"And Then in New Orleans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A float in the annual Mardi Grad parade in the Big Easy seems to have a certain common theme with those in Germany &#8211; shall we call it a dissolution with the &#8220;hopey changeitude&#8221; that permeated the country last year?  <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/02\/16\/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler\/\">First Thoughts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a pride-themed float called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Experiment of His Own Power,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama is compared to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Proud One\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Dante\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Inferno, posing with his Nobel Peace Prize medal, next to several other representations of him\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalong with Oscar and Heisman Trophy awards, he appears as a five-star general, president of General Motors, and as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153healthcare-expert\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Surgeon General\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall engulfed by the flames of hell.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the rant of a few comic float-makers, or is it a sign of a graver discontent Obama faces from the American people? For many, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking grim: The effect his leadership has had on Katrina recovery-efforts, for instance, is at least as questionable as the promised improvements in foreign policy and economic stimulus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/obama-float.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/obama-float.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama-float\" width=\"486\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/obama-float.jpg 486w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/obama-float-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.  From New Orleans.  U.S.A.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A float in the annual Mardi Grad parade in the Big Easy seems to have a certain common theme with those in Germany &#8211; shall we call it a dissolution with the &#8220;hopey changeitude&#8221; that permeated the country last year? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}