{"id":2254,"date":"2012-11-07T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2014-08-02T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:18:58","slug":"a-change-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/2012\/a-change-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change in Washington?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Johan Galtung: A CHANGE IN WASHINGTON? 06-12-2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Washington, Election Night: OK, one of them won even if the real winners as usual were the non-voters, for whatever reason; men more than women. At about 23:15 Obama passed the magic 50%, not of the popular votes but for the electoral college, with 302-206 well above 270 and it turned into a landslide. Net result: status quo, no change. The media did their best to make the presidential election look important, being the pinnacle, the altar on which democracy is built. Some democracy. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/A-Change-in-Washington.pdf\">Click here to read on<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/A-Change-in-Washington1.pdf\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Johan Galtung on Obama's reelection\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/obama-2012.jpg\"width=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodforthought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}