{"id":1304,"date":"2009-01-20T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2009-01-20T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:13:48","slug":"obamas-spider-man-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Spider-Man Reference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the current Obama\/Spider-Man buzz making the rounds is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/_156329.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel&#8217;s (supposedly pretty ham-handed) &#8220;guest appearance&#8221; by Obama in a current Spider-Man issue<\/a>, here&#8217;s something a bit more subtle that recently caught my eye.\u00a0 Last Sunday&#8217;s Parade Magazine newspaper insert contained a contained a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/export\/sites\/default\/news\/2009\/01\/barack-obama-letter-to-my-daughters.html\" target=\"_blank\">letter\/essay from Obama to his children entitled &#8220;What I Want for You &#8212; and Every Child in America.&#8221;<\/a> In that essay was the following passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;with the great privilege of being a citizen of this nation comes great responsibility.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the fanboy in me, but the first thing I thought of was, of course, this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1305 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spiderman.jpg\" alt=\"spiderman\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or, as it later often appeared both in the comics and in the films:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;With great power comes great responsibility.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the current Obama\/Spider-Man buzz making the rounds is Marvel&#8217;s (supposedly pretty ham-handed) &#8220;guest appearance&#8221; by Obama in a current Spider-Man issue, here&#8217;s something a bit more subtle that recently caught my eye.\u00a0 Last Sunday&#8217;s Parade Magazine newspaper insert contained a contained a letter\/essay from Obama to his children entitled &#8220;What I Want for You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1304\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}