{"id":2150,"date":"2009-01-23T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2009-01-23T18:45:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:45:37","slug":"what-is-obamas-pay-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-obamas-pay-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Obama&#039;s pay grade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked by Rick Warren whether life begins at conception, Obama had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/frontrow\/2008\/08\/16\/obama-says-pointed-abortion-query-above-his-pay-grade\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked at what point a baby gets &#8220;human rights,&#8221; Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: &#8220;&#8230; whether you&#8217;re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question\u00a0 with specificity &#8230; is above my pay grade.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If human life does begin at conception, then abortion snuffs out a life: it is equivalent to murder. How is it possible for Obama to support a position that depends on a conclusion that is &#8216;above my \u00a0pay grade&#8217; unless he is lying or stupid?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, one thing is clear: he should be paid less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked by Rick Warren whether life begins at conception, Obama had this to say: Asked at what point a baby gets &#8220;human rights,&#8221; Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: &#8220;&#8230; whether you&#8217;re looking at it from a theological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-obamas-pay-grade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,256],"tags":[2022,2227],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}