{"id":4849,"date":"2010-05-06T06:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:19:21","slug":"newstoon-05-06-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/newstoon-05-06-10","title":{"rendered":"Newstoon, 05.06.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, a self-proclaimed &#8220;unifier&#8221; &#8211; Barack Obama &#8211; came to Michigan. On Wednesday, a real unifier &#8211; Ernie Harwell &#8211; passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was, briefly, a uniter. He embodied our dream of a colorblind society after his election. His subsequent greed for power has made him the most divisive president of modern times. But in truth, no pol can be a uniter for long.<\/p>\n<p>Sports is a different matter as Harwell proves. As the Tigers prove. Walk up to a stranger on a street corner the last 24 hours and they know Harwell. The thousands of people circling Comerica Park to catch a last glimpse of Ernie Thursday came from all walks of life, all classes, all races. They all had Ernie and baseball in common.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball unites us. It is without party. Without denomination.<\/P><\/p>\n<p>So fight for what you believe in.<\/P><\/p>\n<p> Then go to a sports bar after work for unity.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon follows. <a href=http:\/\/detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/section?Category=OPINION01> (which also appears here in the Editorials section<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><div align=\"left\"><img src=http:\/\/multimedia.detnews.com\/pix\/5e\/a6\/e3\/e3\/98\/2e\/20100505181142_050610HarwellRIP.jpg><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\n<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, a self-proclaimed &#8220;unifier&#8221; &#8211; Barack Obama &#8211; came to Michigan. On Wednesday, a real unifier &#8211; Ernie Harwell &#8211; passed away. Obama was, briefly, a uniter. He embodied our dream of a colorblind society after his election. His subsequent greed for power has made him the most divisive president of modern times. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}