{"id":445,"date":"2009-02-25T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2009\/02\/25\/obamas-presidential-library-should-be-virtual\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:45:27","slug":"obamas-presidential-library-should-be-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2009\/02\/obamas-presidential-library-should-be-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Presidential Library should be virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/02\/22\/monumental_egos\/\">Mark Feeney asks<\/a>, &#8220;Where would an Obama Library make most sense: Hawaii? Kansas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer, obviously, is cyberspace. As our first Web-savvy President, Barack Obama should put his Presidential Library online. If his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/TransparencyandOpenGovernment\/\">Transparency and Open Government Initiative<\/a> succeeds, most of the Library will already be built by the end of his term. Then it&#8217;s a matter of working with his brilliant Web team to design, curate, and future-proof the space.<\/p>\n<p>Then instead of raising money for one library, put the funds into the public library system nationwide, so all 50 states benefit. That would be a legacy all Americans can be proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe&#8217;s Mark Feeney asks, &#8220;Where would an Obama Library make most sense: Hawaii? Kansas?&#8221; The answer, obviously, is cyberspace. As our first Web-savvy President, Barack Obama should put his Presidential Library online. If his Transparency and Open Government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2009\/02\/obamas-presidential-library-should-be-virtual\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}