{"id":2490,"date":"2009-07-27T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2009-07-28T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T15:00:21","slug":"white-house-racial-beer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/27\/white-house-racial-beer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;beer summit&#8217; at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2492\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/beer-glasses-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"beer-glasses\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A spokesman confirms that President Obama, his African-American professor friend arrested in his own Cambridge home, and the white arresting officer will\u00a0<a title=\"have a beer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/07\/27\/gates.harvard.obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">have a beer<\/a> together this week at the White House to mend hurt feelings on all sides.\u00a0 College of Communication Associate Dean <a title=\"Tobe Berkovitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tobe_berkovitz.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tobe Berkovitz<\/a>, a political communications expert, says the &#8220;beer summit&#8221; invitation was a smart move on Obama&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tobe Berkovitz, 617-353-3447, <a href=\"mailto:tobetv@bu.edu\">tobetv@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman confirms that President Obama, his African-American professor friend arrested in his own Cambridge home, and the white arresting officer will\u00a0have a beer together this week at the White House to mend hurt feelings on all sides.\u00a0 College of Communication Associate Dean Tobe Berkovitz, a political communications expert, says the &#8220;beer summit&#8221; invitation was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1522,1520,1521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}