{"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&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&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\u2026<\/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\u2019t happen, but the Market and its vendors were more than prepared.<\/p>\n<p>So was I\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The feeling was electric at the Market\u2026anticipation, 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>\u201cThank you Mr. President for coming to Buffalo.  The Broadway Market is a big melting pot of what makes this country of ours great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t 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\u2026 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}]}}