{"id":242,"date":"2008-11-05T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:32:32","slug":"friedman-declares-end-of-civil-war-with-obama-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/11\/05\/friedman-declares-end-of-civil-war-with-obama-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedman Declares End of Civil War with Obama Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a thought-provoking column today in the New York Times, headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/opinion\/05friedman.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Finishing Our Work,&#8221;<\/a> Tom Friedman argues that the Obama victory represents a final act of closure for the American Civil War.\u00a0 And he finds it particularly fitting that it was Virginia in many ways that provided the key to Obama&#8217;s electoral triumph.\u00a0 Friedman writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state. For nothing more symbolically illustrated the final chapter of America\u2019s Civil War than the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia \u2014 the state that once exalted slavery and whose secession from the Union in 1861 gave the Confederacy both strategic weight and its commanding general \u2014 voted Democratic, thus assuring that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thought-provoking column today in the New York Times, headlined &#8220;Finishing Our Work,&#8221; Tom Friedman argues that the Obama victory represents a final act of closure for the American Civil War.\u00a0 And he finds it particularly fitting that it was Virginia in many ways that provided the key to Obama&#8217;s electoral triumph.\u00a0 Friedman writes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,83,81,84],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-general-opinion","category-recent-news","category-reconstruction-1865-1880","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}