{"id":37005,"date":"2014-08-09T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37005"},"modified":"2014-08-09T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:49:12","slug":"obama-has-44-cousins-in-the-senate-now-cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37005","title":{"rendered":"Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can&#8217;t we all just get along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/aug\/07\/obama-cousins-senate-family-tree\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can&#8217;t we all just get along?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n204-08-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajjacobs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A J Jacobs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Forget the president\u2019s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we\u2019re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still \u2013 come on, cousins!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a tough week for the Obama family.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> second cousin \u2013 a radiologist named Milton Wolf \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/kansas-senate-2014-results-pat-roberts-milton-wolf-109748.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost the closer-than-expected Republican primary for US Senate in Kansas<\/a>. Wolf and Obama share a relatively recent ancestor, a 19th century farm laborer named Thomas McCurry. Barack leaned left, Milton leaned right \u2013 he was a Tea Party candidate who believed his second cousin was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/06\/obama-cousin-milton-wolf-criticize-president-107772.html\" target=\"_blank\">destroying America<\/a>\u201d. But still, they are, officially, kin.<\/p>\n<p>So now Barack Obama is deprived of having a cousin in the US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Or is he?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/aug\/07\/obama-cousins-senate-family-tree\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can&#8217;t we all just get along? The Guardian 204-08-07 A J Jacobs Forget the president\u2019s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we\u2019re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still \u2013 come on, cousins! It\u2019s been a tough week for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[16939,2103],"class_list":["post-37005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-a-j-jacobs","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005","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=37005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}