{"id":639,"date":"2011-04-01T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2011-04-01T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:17:03","slug":"obama-receives-transparency-award-in-a-private-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Obama Receives “Transparency Award” in a Private Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, you read that headline correctly. President Obama received his award for transparency in government in a private ceremony. The press was not present, it was not posted on the White House Calendar, it was a secret! Here are a coupe of articles on the ceremony.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/4919\/obama-accepts-transparency-award-in-secret<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/obama-finally-accepts-his-transparency-award-behind-closed-doors\/2011\/03\/31\/AFRplO9B_blog.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/perm\/0311\/not_a_secret_anymore_a00ccd98-0d9e-4822-8936-168f3a51b959.html<\/a><\/p>\n

One observer likened it to the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that it was awarded for the hope of what he would do rather that what he actually did.<\/p>\n

In the words of Tom Cruise in the movie Risky Business<\/em>, sometimes you just have to say “WTF.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, you read that headline correctly. President Obama received his award for transparency in government in a private ceremony. The press was not present, it was not posted on the White House Calendar, it was a secret! Here are a coupe of articles on the ceremony. http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/4919\/obama-accepts-transparency-award-in-secret http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/obama-finally-accepts-his-transparency-award-behind-closed-doors\/2011\/03\/31\/AFRplO9B_blog.html http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/perm\/0311\/not_a_secret_anymore_a00ccd98-0d9e-4822-8936-168f3a51b959.html One observer likened it to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}