{"id":607124,"date":"2009-11-24T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010347135_birtherpainsandpangs.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-24T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:24:50","slug":"birther-pains-and-pangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/607124","title":{"rendered":"Birther pains and pangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jefferson didn\u2019t have birth certificates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Were not all the early presidents born of parents who were not American citizens [\u201cBirther pangs,\u201d Opinion, editorial, Nov. 20]?<\/p>\n<p>Were not the parents of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and James Monroe citizens of the British Empire when those future presidents were born?<\/p>\n<p>Surely, everyone born before 1776 was originally a citizen of a country other than the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Stephen Lamphear, Burien<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jefferson didn\u2019t have birth certificates Were not all the early presidents born of parents who were not American citizens [\u201cBirther pangs,\u201d Opinion, editorial, Nov. 20]? Were not the parents of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and James Monroe citizens of the British Empire when those future presidents were born? Surely, everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xWk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}