{"id":825,"date":"2007-02-22T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/beware_of_power\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T20:20:13","slug":"beware_of_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/beware_of_power\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many parts of our culture ignore the drug of power.&nbsp; Often, we confine our conversations around power and politics.&nbsp; This piece from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/02\/21\/clinton.obama\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">CNN<\/a> details some conflict with two leading Democrats running for President.<\/p>\n<p>I know many feel Barack Obama is just the &quot;right&quot; guy for the job of president.&nbsp; Sadly, I fear he will be eaten alive by the same animal that has eaten his opponents.&nbsp; You can always put lofty words around your vision, but often this comes from those whose hearts have been ravaged by their desire for power.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the DEA should put power on the same list as cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this clip from the classic film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_fullscreen?video_id=a4avFIqNd_U&amp;l=150&amp;t=OEgsToPDskKIo5usphqAZtHj8HLG6nJw&amp;fs=1&amp;title=Citizen Kane - Campaign Speech\">Citizen Kane<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many parts of our culture ignore the drug of power.&nbsp; Often, we confine our conversations around power and politics.&nbsp; This piece from CNN details some conflict with two leading Democrats running for President. I know many feel Barack Obama is just the &quot;right&quot; guy for the job of president.&nbsp; Sadly, I fear he will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}