{"id":46680,"date":"2016-04-23T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46680"},"modified":"2016-04-23T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:09:28","slug":"boris-johnsons-essay-on-obama-and-churchill-touches-nerve-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46680","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson\u2019s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/23\/world\/europe\/boris-johnson-the-sun-brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson\u2019s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sewell_Chan\" target=\"_blank\">Sewell Chan<\/a><\/strong>, International News Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000004352070\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">LONDON<\/a> \u2014 Hours after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> landed in London to urge Britons to vote to remain in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Union\" target=\"_blank\">European Union<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Boris Johnson<\/a>, arguably the most visible leader of the campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_withdrawal_from_the_European_Union\" target=\"_blank\">Britain to leave the bloc<\/a>, hit back with an opinion essay that criticized the president but immediately raised hackles online.<\/p>\n<p>The essay, published in the right-leaning tabloid <em>The Sun<\/em> on Friday morning, recycled a story about a bust of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston_Churchill\" target=\"_blank\">Winston Churchill<\/a> that was removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oval_Office\" target=\"_blank\">Oval Office<\/a> shortly after Mr. Obama took office in 2009. It also mentioned a theory, prominent among some right-wing Americans, that Mr. Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/explaining-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">motivated by a radical anti-imperialist agenda<\/a> and that \u201cthe part-Kenyan president\u2019s ancestral dislike of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Empire\" target=\"_blank\">British Empire<\/a>\u201d motivated the removal of the bust&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/23\/world\/europe\/boris-johnson-the-sun-brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online The New York Times 2016-04-22 Sewell Chan, International News Editor LONDON \u2014 Hours after President Obama landed in London to urge Britons to vote to remain in the European Union, Mayor Boris Johnson, arguably the most visible leader of the campaign for Britain to leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,10,20],"tags":[23612,21905,2640,23611,2327],"class_list":["post-46680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","category-usa","tag-boris-johnson","tag-european-union","tag-new-york-times","tag-sewell-chan","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680","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=46680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46681,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680\/revisions\/46681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}