{"id":32344,"date":"2013-07-16T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32344"},"modified":"2015-11-28T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:05:53","slug":"on-martin-case-obama-shifts-from-passion-to-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32344","title":{"rendered":"On Martin case, Obama shifts from passion to calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnews.com\/ap\/db_320175\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=oWaakrM1\" target=\"_blank\">On Martin case, Obama shifts from passion to calm<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jpaceDC\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Pace<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> first addressed the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin<\/a> last year, he did so passionately, declaring that if he had a son, he would look like the slain 17-year-old. His powerful and personal commentary marked a rare public reflection on race from the nation&#8217;s first black president.<\/p>\n<p>But now, with the man who fatally shot Martin acquitted and the burden of any future charges squarely on his own administration, Obama is seeking to inject calm into a case that has inflamed passions, including his own. In a brief statement, the president called Martin&#8217;s killing a &#8220;tragedy&#8221; but implored the public to respect a Florida jury&#8217;s decision to clear George Zimmerman, the man charged in the teen&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher,&#8221; Obama said Sunday. &#8220;But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnews.com\/ap\/db_320175\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=oWaakrM1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Martin case, Obama shifts from passion to calm Associated Press 2013-07-16 Julie Pace WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; When President Barack Obama first addressed the death of Trayvon Martin last year, he did so passionately, declaring that if he had a son, he would look like the slain 17-year-old. His powerful and personal commentary marked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[10140,15208,10143],"class_list":["post-32344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-julie-pace","tag-trayvon-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44326,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions\/44326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}