{"id":14112,"date":"2023-07-10T05:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=14112"},"modified":"2023-07-19T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:36:20","slug":"2023-07-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-07-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Minhaj Interviews &#8220;the Most Hopeful President in History&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/humanists.org_2023_07_16_Hasan_Minhaj_Barack_Obama.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14114\"\/><figcaption>Christopher Hitchens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>A video of an interview of Barack Obama by Hasan Minhaj<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., July 16, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the Humanist Forum, in person OR on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He describes Barack Obama as the most hopeful president in American history.<br>\nIn this entertaining but honest conversation, Hasa asks President Obama about life as an ex-president and his feelings about the current state of American politics. He asked the president if he ever gets depressed. Obama\u2019s answer covered many of the problems that cause the hopelessness that so much of this generation feels.<br>\nYou can preview this 29-minute video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jAYVKZSWXhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jAYVKZSWXhY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. 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Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He describes Barack Obama as the most hopeful president in American history. In this entertaining but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-07-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hasan Minhaj Interviews &#8220;the Most Hopeful President in History&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14121,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}