{"id":679744,"date":"2026-06-02T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679744\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:55:07","slug":"the-obama-center-opens-as-a-time-warp-to-an-old-political-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679744\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Center opens as a time warp to an old political order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GWWGQPSIWFG4ROWV4RZWMAQHEM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">CHICAGO \u2014One end of the regulation-size basketball court that anchors the south tip of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/\">Obama Presidential Center<\/a> campus is emblazoned with the words \u201cYes We Can,\u201d and at the other end, \u201cFired Up, Ready to Go.\u201d The facility\u2019s main tower, which houses a museum documenting the 44th president\u2019s life and career, features a \u201cHope and Change Lobby,\u201d and outside there is a playground (with a child-safe poured-in-place rubber surface), a women\u2019s garden, barbecue grills, and a green roof with wheelchair-accessible raised beds for vegetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014One end of the regulation-size basketball court that anchors the south tip of the Obama Presidential Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-679744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}