{"id":1971,"date":"2008-11-13T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:55:10","slug":"hope-is-dope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hope&#8221; is Dope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3iojPaw8yX0\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"MC Yogi\u2019s \u201cObama \u201808: Vote for Hope\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screen112.jpg\" title=\"MC Yogi\u2019s \u201cObama \u201808: Vote for Hope\u201d\" alt=\"MC Yogi\u2019s \u201cObama \u201808: Vote for Hope\u201d\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcyogi.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">MC Yogi<\/a>&#8216;s svelte and limber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3iojPaw8yX0\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Obama &#8217;08: Vote for Hope,&#8221;<\/a> above? (Yet, somehow, I couldn&#8217;t escape <a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=42\"  target=\"_blank\">Will.I.Am&#8217;s pretentious and flaccid &#8220;Yes We Can.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Hearing &#8220;Vote for Hope,&#8221; I realized we have firmly entered the era of Barack Obama hip-hop samples. His voice has become an weighty signifier, instantly recognizable, a profound way, when mixed with beats, to give the record a bigger meaning than the content of his actual words. Enjoy this timeless, get-out-the-vote gem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I miss MC Yogi&#8216;s svelte and limber &#8220;Obama &#8217;08: Vote for Hope,&#8221; above? (Yet, somehow, I couldn&#8217;t escape Will.I.Am&#8217;s pretentious and flaccid &#8220;Yes We Can.&#8221;) Hearing &#8220;Vote for Hope,&#8221; I realized we have firmly entered the era of Barack Obama hip-hop samples. His voice has become an weighty signifier, instantly recognizable, a profound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}