{"id":5518,"date":"2010-05-16T00:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2010-05-16T00:51:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:51:26","slug":"the-broadway-market-was-ready-for-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2010\/05\/the-broadway-market-was-ready-for-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broadway Market was ready for Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"360\" height=\"244\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_vXoSeu_MH4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It would have been a very cool experience for me personally, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Market was on the short list of potential places for President Barack Obama to stop while he was in Buffalo last week.  It didn&#8217;t happen, but the Market and its vendors were more than prepared.<\/p>\n<p>So was I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The feeling was electric at the Market&#8230;anticipation, excitement, nerves, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a good part of Thursday afternoon waiting at the Market along with a lot of other people.  Something like this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to get up close and personal with arguably the most powerful people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I even had what I would have said to him well prepared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you Mr. President for coming to Buffalo.  The Broadway Market is a big melting pot of what makes this country of ours great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t come, but it was a cool experience nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would have been a very cool experience for me personally, but&#8230; The Market was on the short list of potential places for President Barack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,1136],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-1r0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}