{"id":253,"date":"2011-01-30T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-01-30T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T18:39:59","slug":"bams-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/bams-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam&#039;s rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting about one of Bam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/01\/bam-and-sweet-potato-pie\/\" target=\"_blank\">2008 campaign speeches<\/a> reminded me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/nov\/26\/barack-obama-usa1\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a> undertaken by <em>The Guardian&#8217;s<\/em> arts correspondent, Charlotte Higgins, on the Roman and Greek rhetorical devices in his major speeches.\u00a0\u00a0 Relatedly, textual analyses of Bam&#8217;s 2008 Presidential election victory speech can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/david-crystal.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/on-obamas-victory-style.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2008\/11\/17\/081117ta_talk_wood\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting about one of Bam&#8217;s 2008 campaign speeches reminded me of the analysis undertaken by The Guardian&#8217;s arts correspondent, Charlotte Higgins, on the Roman and Greek rhetorical devices in his major speeches.\u00a0\u00a0 Relatedly, textual analyses of Bam&#8217;s 2008 Presidential election victory speech can be found here and here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,57,64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-obama-speeches","category-politics","category-rhetoric","p1","y2011","m01","d30","h18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}