{"id":11514,"date":"2008-11-02T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/the-measure-of-a-president\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:42:00","slug":"the-measure-of-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/the-measure-of-a-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measure of a President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i>&rsquo; op-chart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/10\/06\/opinion\/06opchart.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Measure of a President<\/a> presents an interesting comparison of presidents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the Presidential campaign, much has been made of Barack Obama\u2019s slender physique, with some commentators going so far as to argue that he is too thin for most Americans to relate to him. Does candidate height and weight play a role in electoral success? With Mr. Obama and John McCain set to square off in the second of three presidential debates tomorrow, it seemed worth taking a look through recent history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/popular\" title=\"via delicious\/popular\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/election\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/2008\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">2008<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-7890931623305160233?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&rsquo; op-chart The Measure of a President presents an interesting comparison of presidents: During the Presidential campaign, much has been made of Barack Obama\u2019s slender physique, with some commentators going so far as to argue that he is too thin for most Americans to relate to him. Does candidate height and weight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/the-measure-of-a-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Measure of a President&#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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}